I am like a cartoon strip; I am like Donald Duck; everybody knows me in Italy.

It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.

When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world

You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

The exquisite truth is to believe in something that maybe you know is a fiction, but you believe in it willingly.

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!

My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.

The most important thing is to continue to be yourself. The day after the Oscars, you have to get on with your life. To be honest and true to yourself.

I would like to be Jupiter, and lie down in the firmament and make love to everybody.

Denying yourself a life of personal freedom is denying yourself of a life worth living.

because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

You must have a vivid imagination of what you seek.

You have the power to create your own destiny. You just need to decide what you want and how badly you want it.

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.

What makes life interesting are the challenges we face.

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

So it is that good warriors take their stance on ground where they cannot lose, and do not overlook conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat.

I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.

Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.