After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

Love connects a man to his woman, money a woman to his man

You only confuse hope with power once in life.

Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.

It is so comical to hear oneself called old even at ninety I suppose!

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

Experiences of the first order, of the first rank, are not realized through the eye.

You are a little band of awareness and your awareness moves from one state of mind to another.

Take it easy, take it easyDon't let the sound of your own wheelsDrive you crazy.

Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.

I figured if I told it to myself often enough, I would start believing it.