Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.

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.

The searchlight of [God’s] Spirit will probe the inner depths of your soul and reveal things that you think you have already yielded, but you have not.

One of the greatest skills any leader can master is becoming comfortable with silence.

Even your sweetest character has claws, no matter how well they may be retracted and hidden (hidden even from herself).

A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

Because I hold an Israeli passport, I have a share in all the wrongs that are done to the Palestinians. . . . I want to be able to say that I did all I could to prevent the bloodshed.

Is instinct in the head or in the heart? Off the field, I follow my good instincts which steer me in the right direction. Sometimes on the field my head leads me astray. That's what I believe.

I do have a 22-inch waist, I will say that.

The White House belongs to all Americans. It's supposed to be something we're proud of.

When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.

All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.