That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

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.

May we continue to workship God, with wholehearted devotion.

At first parenthood was as I had expected, exhausting, sometimes heinous, and occasionally divine. I held my children close enough to feel them breathe, laugh, swallow.

Save a life. Seed a generation

Respond with love even when someone wants to hurt you.

To live forever, die in the service of others.

By the time a fool learns how to hold a spear, the lion has eaten him.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

I have a tight family group that's really important to me. I don't want to work all the time.

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get.

The world has seen thousands of prophets, and the world has yet to see millions