Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

My dad believes that bad disguises itself - that danger hides. I think it's the opposite. The truly horrible things about the world are always reaching out for you.

...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

If a rich man drinks alcohol, he will easily become a poor. If a poor man does not drink alcohol, he will easily become rich.

Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.

In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

I am such a political person.

Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.

Travel, in the superficial sense at least, is a good cure for loneliness. When you travel, especially in the third world, you quickly find that you get more friends than you know what to do with.

... what counts in life usually cannot be counted.

Remember that any time you're filled with resentment, you're turning the controls of your emotional life over to others to manipulate.