There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.

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.

You too can become wealthy but only thanks to the amount of time you are willing to convert into products.

For gypsies do not like to stay -They only come to go away.

Great soul, great life.

Just as an apple a day keeps the doctor away, a book a week keeps the mind ever sleek

The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.

You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you.

Surpass the best to be the best

Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news. Alaska isn't a foreign country.

It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds.