As my mother used to say: "Mimic a duck act calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like crazy underneath."

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Night never needs a shade but it requires to fade into the grin of twinkling stars where light is just a glint of scars

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Death is a very important part of life.

They are an essential tool to give new life to what you already have in your wardrobe. Accessories are like vitamins to fashion: you should use them liberally as such.

On human levels of consciousness one may emphasize getting and having as the prime goals, in spiritual consciousness he seeks the way of giving and being.

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable.

I write and perform for the feeling it gives me, and the experience of being connected with a room full of people to the vibration of music

True friendship can exist only between equals.

The heart with compassion is the temple of God.