What I wanted was simple: to preserve what existed.

Italy is a geographical expression.

I am a rock of order.

History is the true school of politics.

Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match.

-- Joel Greenblatt

I regard all the world as my country, and I believe that I should be very welcome everywhere.

-- Peter Paul Rubens

China will stay on the path of peaceful development.

-- Hu Jintao

There can be no diplomacy without the power to defend oneself.

-- Shigeru Yoshida

If your thinking is bogged down by distorted symbolic meanings, illogical reasoning, and erroneous interpretations, you are, in truth, blind and deaf.

-- Aaron Beck

I choose what I believe, and say nothing. For I am not as simple as I may seem.

-- Catherine of Aragon