Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

To catch any fish, give it what it eats.

Don’t be afraid of the darkness

I think best with a pencil in my hand.

We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun, joy and happiness. This is my gift.

I’d like to consider Ferrari as a scaled down version of God.

Broadcast TV is like the landline of 20 years ago.

Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.