Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.

I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Enjoy life. This is not a dress rehearsal.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

If I had a dollar for everytime my mother told me god had a plan I'd probably buy a new prada bag.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.

I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.

I love Italy and I say I am from Italy wherever I go.

Let the ideas clash, let the swords sleep!

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

If you take an intense color and put an intense complement next to it without graying it, it's very hot. The gray allows the eye to do the visual mixing.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.