To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.

... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good.

All just order in the world is based on this, that man give man what is his due.

[T]o know means to reach the reality of existing things[.]

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

The ultimate meaning of the active life is to make possible the happiness of contemplation.

From the dream to mainstream...Do whatever is necessary to make your dream a reality. To get others to invest in you and your dreams you must be willing to invest in yourself.

The truth in death can only be found in the dying itself.

To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.

The stars above Italian clubs' badges shows you how many times they have won the Gazetta.

Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.

Love means each person is free to follow his or her own heart.

My biggest goal for the future is motherhood.

There are many changes in the weather of a day.

Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.

Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak.