In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

It is always imagined before it is lived. In the world of thought, imaginations are lives, but people kill them before they grow to have life!

Love is my decision to make your problem my problem.

If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.

history has no overall direction or purpose

In 2001 Steve Staunton became the record cap holder for which country? Brazil.

My mother said I was a star when I was about four years old. That's all I need.

The Khaddar of my conception is that handspun cloth entirely takes the place of mill cloth in India.

We want property, but property restored to its proper limits, that is to say, free distribution of the products of labour, property minus usury!

When we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround us.

The Internet is awesome because it's...there.