If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.

The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

Faith is stronger than so-called reason.

For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization.

Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball.

He who was the Son of God became the Son of man, that man ... might become the son of God.

I find it most intriguing to contemplate the fact that while men are considering what place to give Jesus Christ in history, He has already decided what place to give them in eternity.

Readers themselves, I think, contribute to a book. They add their own imaginations, and it is as though the writer only gave them something to work on, and they did the rest.

I like the experience of being in a shoot, and I'm a total exhibitionist, but I don't like to look at them.

Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization

We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!

We don't need a fuel that's cleaner, we need a fuel that happens to be cleaner, but is half the price of oil.