Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.

Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.

Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant.

The love of power excludes all others.

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.

Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.

I know many crooks and they never preach, but I don't know anyone who preaches that isn't a crook also.

In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.

For long-term success, invest 5-10% of your time each day and 5-10% of your income each month in increasing your wisdom.

It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it