Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.

What I value in life is quality rather then quantity.

I wish you all a long and happy life

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading.

Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.

Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.

I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

We are all cells in the body of humanity - all of us, all over the world. Each one has a contribution to make, and will know from within what this contribution is.