Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.

Acting requires a lot of discipline to go with the obsession. It's a path of knowledge, and of self-knowledge. Sometimes you get lost on the path. And then you find yourself again.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.

The prison that exists in a man's mind is far more difficult to escape from than anything built with brick walls and steel doors. For it is the fear of freedom that holds you inside...

For the first time ever, a black Republican woman has been elected to Congress. President Obama told her, 'You are all set. This country never turns against a black anything.'

That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much.

Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

I believe that there's no improvement if you have an inferiority complex and victim mentality.

My hands are clean, but not because I wasn't prepared to bloody them.

It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.

We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making.