Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

A heart? Peppone knows where one is to be met with. There is always someone in the black market in need of dying early.

Working ten times as hard will make you twice as good.

We must invest in infrastructure development and rebuilding communities to create jobs.

Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance.

I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.

Forgive them even if they are not sorry

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

Having an open dialogue, in any creative atmosphere, is really important to feeling free to tell the story the best way you can.

Until we begin to see each other as ourselves, nothing will change. We are one planet.

Violence was just as much about WHAT was happening as it was how it happened.