My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

So also is the case if I don’t care the one abusing me. He is the one going to be demeaned.

Forgiveness brings healing.

There are two masters, and you have to choose which master you are going to serve.

I was born in Naples but my mother is from Rome , therefore some water from the Tiber river runs for sure in my veins.

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. Wishing you a great journey.

Every one knows that there are no real forests in England.The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman.

I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

People go down bad paths and they make bad decisions, but it's always justified in their head.

If someone met me on a game day, he wouldn't like me. The days in between, I'm the goodest guy you can find.

The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.