Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the truth I mean this im okay Trust me... Im not okay ...Well okay im not okay. Im not o-f cking-kay

It's what he needs, and whether he ever admits it to us or not, it's what he loves" - Theoden (From Commanded:House of Theoden)

And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud.

I grew up with my career being thrust upon me. It took me a long time to believe that I could do more than that one aspect of our business.

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

There is unspeakable comfort in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good.

To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

There is nothing wrong with my mind.