We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.

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.

Take a step of faith. And leave fate to the faithful God.

Understanding was coming so fast, it seemed to bypass thought.

He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

I am hoping to be able to lend my support to a Sickle Cell charity in the near future, as I want to try and help raise money and awareness about this disease.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and doing a show.

I enjoy being a girl.

I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important.

A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.