I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

You are not responsible for anybody elses life or happiness, don't ever feel guilty for being happy! ‪

For forty years, I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one aim in view - the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nations.

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.

I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.