A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Killing or eating animals is an act of beasts. Stirs within the devil. Sorry. It spurs evil. Thus is truth - at least the metaphysical.

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

Life wasn’t perfect, but it wasn’t supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

The point of decorating, as far as I can tell, is to create the background for the best life you can have.

Life is fairer when individuals are free to make their own decisions

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.

I'm really working on trying to get that lifestyle aspect of the Emilio Pucci house to be as strong as possible.

A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.