The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country: consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people.

I'm 74 years old and even though I may be a bit of a rascal, 33 girls in two months seems to me too much even for a 30-year-old.

I will take questions from the guys, but from the girls I want telephone numbers.

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

I always win, I'm cursed to win.

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice.

Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation.

Only I can turn this country around.

I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out.

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

Thanks be to God for his timely provisions.

If you are not willing to risk the usual you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.

For still I see that forethought spares afterthought and after-sorrow.

The big treasury is an ocean of infinite creativity. It's a creativity that creates everything that is a thing - it's mighty powerful creativity.

The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character.

You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys.

Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

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