"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that the most profound truths are found in silence."

"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."

"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."

"In the depths of adversity, the bonds of friendship are the true treasures of existence."

"I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."

"China has all the advantages in the world. But it doesn't have a history of free thinking, risk-taking pioneers - the kind of people the U.S. is built upon."

"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."

"I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers."