Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

He's come a long way, but he's still never accepted that he's forgiven.

Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think thats because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

I don't keep a press agent because I think people need to have a break from you.

The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality.

To me, if the writing doesn't have rhythm, it feels dead. I lose all confidence. The music has to emerge to feel confident enough to move on to the next major chapter.

Information design addresses the organization and presentation of data: its transformation into valuable, meaningful information.

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

On the cross Jesus was treated as an outcast so that we could be brought into God's family freely by grace.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.