The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.

Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything.

Find first peace within yourself. Don't eat too much. Keep your brain active. Love.

I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.

I also like ladies. And not as in shopping buddies, but in the carnal sense.

Those who get their living by their daily labor . . . have nothing to stir them up to be serviceable but their wants which it is a prudence to relieve, but folly to cure.

There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.

Eat more berries. Blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and other varieties have anthocyanins that can help reverse some loss of balance and memory associated with aging.

Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and methods of operations are understandable to men.

Some people use half their ingenuity to get into debt, and the other half to avoid paying it.

Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans.

What do the contours of your body mean, laid out like the lines on a hand, so that I no longer see them except as fate?

No thought lives in your head rent-free.

Our purpose is to lean against the winds of deflation or inflation, whichever way they are blowing.