My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.

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.

Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?

A tenor is not a man but a disease.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.

You would be surprised how many people are in the market not to make money but for the thrill of it!

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.