I have noticed that music, like solid matter, is essentially crystalline in structure.

Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.

The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.

A baby is a dancing joy of life.

He liked to address every man in his own language, as a good European should.

Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?

For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love.

Truth is a necessary phantom.

No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

You want to be in the driver’s seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.

Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.