All children are sweet at five. But at twelve they begin to get silly.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

Never deviate off the path that society has set for you. Otherwise you may find yourself in a place that you like.

Life always holds in store surprises that are more complex and unforeseeable than any dream, and the secret is to let them come and not block them with castles in the air.

In acceptance, I am grounded. In vulnerability, I am strong. In love, I am whole.

Appear tougher or cooler or funnier than you feel and there is a chance you'll make it.

We're eyeball to eyeball...and I think the other fellow just blinked.

From the paths of blood (and such is the history of nations) I cannot refuse to turn aside to gather some flowers of science or virtue.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline.

Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.