The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations.

No part of Italian society should see itself as exempt from the effort to save Italy from collapse.

Now is the time to show maximum responsibility. It is not the time to pay off old scores nor for sterile partisan recriminations. It is time to re-establish a climate of calmness and mutual respect.

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.

We owe it to our children to give them a dignified and hopeful future.

It is a responsibility we perceive from the entire international community to protect the stability of the single currency as well as the European frame work.

If the constitutional process is not brought to a successful conclusion before the European elections, then the whole process might run out of steam.

The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points.

It takes a lot of effort to win back credibility after having lost it so heavily.

Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.

He groaned and murmured, "If I didn't think I was going to die, I'd have you right here.

Generation is the Important factor, of the Growth of Ideas.

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.

I miss the ocean. I miss diving into the cold water and coming out a new man. On the road it's hard to get that feeling. Showers are okay, but there's nothing quite like being in the ocean.

I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.

Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.

Art is the last thing I'm worried about when I'm writing a song. As far as I'm concerned, art is just short for 'Arthur.'

Value our lives because we never know what day or what time itll be over, ... Rich, famous, whatever, it just makes you appreciate just seeing today.

Sometimes too much thinking leads to the Death of Doing