Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.

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.

No one is sent by accident to anyone.

2.15 GRIEFAll the grief of every man, Remove himself – he only can, For this grief that be within, Be caused by his own thinking.[110] - 2

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

They [Erasers] were bad fliers," Angel chimed in, "And in their minds, they weren't all kill the mutants, like they usually are. They were like, remember to flap!

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Skepticism is provisional, even if it lasts a lifetime.

Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

Shoe Suede Blues is ten years old this year. The Band consists of four members.

A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts in earnest.