A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.

I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It’s not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?

The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.

Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

When my father was arrested, we didn’t know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.

It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.

Heroes can be sweet.

I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton’s mediation.

Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It’s like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!

I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life – trust me! You develop...

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn’t vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

I don’t hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.

To speak of oneself means to lay bare one’s own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one’s own soul is not at all like taking off one’s brassiere on...

We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called ‘objectivity.’ Objectivity does not exist – it cannot exist!… The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the...

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It’s that simple!

Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as...

I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.

I defend Israel’s right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

America’s vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It’s the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

The more democratic and open a society is, the more it’s exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the...

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.

What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It’s their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.

i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i am proud of it. i am so even though such percentage...

I didn’t want to kill a man. I’m not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.

This Islam business kidnapped me.

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king – a real leader.

I cry, sometimes, because I’m not 20 years younger, and I’m not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

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...

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.

I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn’t make him talk.

It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.

I don’t want to hear about my death.