Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".

I'm 74 years old and even though I may be a bit of a rascal, 33 girls in two months seems to me too much even for a 30-year-old.

I will take questions from the guys, but from the girls I want telephone numbers.

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

I always win, I'm cursed to win.

The Left loves the poor so much it creates more of them every time it gets into power.

I don't need to go into office for the power. I have houses all over the world, stupendous boats... beautiful airplanes, a beautiful wife, a beautiful family... I am making a sacrifice.

Mussolini never killed anyone, he just sent dissenters abroad for vacation.

Only I can turn this country around.

I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out.

If I, taking care of everyone's interests, also take care of my own, you can't talk about a conflict of interest.

Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight

Don't expect anything except yourself.

Art comes out of art; it begins with imitation, often in the form of parody, and it's in the process of imitating the voice of others that one comes to learn the sound of one's own.

Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn't mean having everything that you want. No one has that.

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

You must be oh-so smart, or oh-so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant...and you may quote me.

You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.

I've always felt that, although Truffaut was greatly revered and admired, at the same time, in terms of film and how much he loved film, he was underestimated.