The best thing for a man to do is to be born and, being born, to die at once.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

I'd far rather be happy than right any day.

When I was looking for the key to open the deepest chamber of your heart, I found that secret key of pure love hidden in my heart.

The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about you.

We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.

It's better to understand something than to memorize something.

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist

Women are wives and mothers and girlfriends, but not the center of our own stories. No one's the good guy; no one's the bad guy. We all do deplorable things and very honorable things.

A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today.