The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.

We do not draw red lines unless we intend to carry them out. We have made very clear that we are willing to work with China, and we believe China has tried to be helpful.

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

I am super-Italian, not even European - Italian. And this is very precise. It's like houses. Over time they stabilize themselves in the terrain. I am still at the first step of a long staircase.

Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!