An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.

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.

The amazing feeling of being alive beautifully conquers the fear of death

Given greater freedom about where to send their children, parents of a kind would flock together and so prevent a healthy intermingling of children from decidedly different backgrounds.

Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.

Hey @giseleofficial, I feel ya girl. #kidding #fakebaby #soymilk #shameless.

The first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day is to have my soul happy in the Lord.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.

Our political systems clearly are not working.

Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.