If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything.

Find first peace within yourself. Don't eat too much. Keep your brain active. Love.

The body does whatever it wants. I am not my body; I am my mind.

I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.

Progress depends on our brain. The most important part of our brain, that which is neocortical, must be used to help others and not just to make discoveries.

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.

If I die tomorrow or in a year, it is the same — it is the message you leave behind you that counts.

Your time is diminishing per every second and minute that passes.

Certainly my life will not ever be as private and discreet, and perhaps I should even use the word insulated, as it was before

A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.

In a word, to grow old in heaven is to grow young.

Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer.

I am available to more good than I have ever experienced, imagined, or realized before in my life.

Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.