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

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.

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.

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

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.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

We need to save the forests. I have a big warehouse we can store them in.

It seemed each band member was in his own world. Yet, each was in tune with the other.

Be you. It's life's best offer to others.

When you're younger, you ride with 90% physical and 10% mental. But if you could learn how to use 90% mental and 10% physical you'd be better off.

In love - it sounded like a sickness without any cure, and wasn't that just how it sometimes felt?

I'm a person who likes to develop. I like for people to see me grow.

We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all.

I somehow instinctively knew it would be much better to win.