Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

Take my hand and grow young with me. Don't rush. Don't sleep. Be a beginner. Light the candles. Keep the fire. Dare to love someone. Tell yourself the truth. Stay inside the rapture.

How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow.

most crimes are connected to hunger. One hunger or another.

Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.

We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling about it. We were children loving our children. And that's who we are still.

There isn't an agony in the world more powerful than tenderness

We're all who we are endlessly.

We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.

An understanding of our position in Christ gives us security

They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a mechanism to make us punish our own deviants.

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

A lamb appears a lion, and we fear Each bush we see's a bear.

I'm expecting a lot from myself, I have set the bar high and I want to do really well for my teammates. I love working out and preparing so I have spent a lot of time doing that.

I think we're on too many government watch lists. We'd better let this one go.

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.

I always feel I can play a role - just give me the time to do the preparation and I'll be it.

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

Also, I didn’t trust any guy who used more styling products than I did.