We have a system in the hands of bureaucracy. Everything is difficult. Everything is complicated. And my idea is simply give simplicity to Italy.

Florence for me is not simply a city. Florence is a sentiment. And I think it's impossible to be a politician without sentiment.

Europe is nervous. Already rattled this year by the shock of the Brexit vote, the European Union needs stability in Italy, a country notorious for its instability.

I'm not interested to change about the government. I'm interested to change the conditions for the people. So, yes, I talk a lot. But I think this is the only way for Italy in this moment.

Italians still know how to enjoy life, even as the country seems stuck in place.

Italy is the worst country for bureaucracy around the world. And this is very important. If we have a system with a lot of politicians the consequence is 63 government change in 70 years.

We will continue to work together to implement the Minsk accord and doing all we can to return to peace with the respect of the integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

Life is a test of courage, It's only worth if you can learn to withstand your most trying times and remain stable, steady, simple and strong in different places and spaces.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration moving you from negative energy to positive

That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Some people accuse me of exaggeration, so let me be clear. Those people seek nothing less than the complete and utter destruction of the American way of life.

Of all the life skills available to us, communication is perhaps the most empowering.

Suppose we blasted all politicians into space. Would the SETI project find even one of them?

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.