One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!

Spoon feeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Pathos, piety, courage, they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Failure: the renewable resource.

A planet without birds is a planet without angels!

Pain and pleasure like light and darkness succeed each other.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

I felt a bottomless sadness. So completely alone. Like one of my stuffed animals at home that I was too old for now, that sat on the shelf in my closet, mashed against the back wall.

With a name like that, he must be Catholic, right?

You got to go along to get along.

You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

Leadership is all about raising the aspirations of people.