I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.

Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.

Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant.

The love of power excludes all others.

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.

Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

And besides, I couldn't stay at the party. It was too dangerous. I nearly died.""From what?""Boredom.

Beauty is truth - truth beauty - that is all Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here.

I have done all that I came into this world to do. I have worked task work, and have the rest of the day to myself.

I've always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks.

I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.