One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

It happens to us all. We drink too much, take one too many hits of acid, proposition the wrong prostitute and end up by the side of some freeway, disheveled and disoriented.

People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect them.

Men ignorant of letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazy.

I am not about fringing, cow girl boots, that kind of Coachella vibe. I just wear something comfortable.

Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.

I just try to speak passionately about things I'm involved in and moved by.

It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.

When you look at athletes, they have fundamentals.

There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians.

I saw The Revenant, and they were calling Native Americans "tree niggers," and that is not cool.