The average man that I encounter all over the country regards government as a sort of great milk cow with its head in the clouds eating air and growing a full teat for everybody on earth.

The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza....

This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on the world.

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.

Some people say, "If you trust in God's unconditional love, why do you need to pray?" A better ending is "why wouldn't you want to?"

It's easy to move fast or be obsessed with quality, but the trick is you have to do both at a startup.

Agreeable then to my present inclination, I formed the object of my own worship, which was no other than my own understanding.

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.