There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics.

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.

We are always in the process of becoming. Self-identity is a fusion of our prior decisions and our current thoughts.

May the radiance of what you love, manifest in whatever you do.

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

First learn to dream big, then the possibilities will follow by itself.

Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.

Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.

God always wants us to be growing.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

In an ignorant country, everything will try to drag you down! Stay firm, aim at the stars, keep going up and drag up the people who are trying to drag you down!

All I want to do is sing on other people's records.