There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

Anticipating pain was like enduring it twice. Why not anticipate pleasure instead?

Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings

Stop longing.You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that. And no less.

Diplomacy is the velvet glove that cloaks the fist of power.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.

I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire.

The appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low.

Beauty always has something remote.

Be still, Be joyous, Celebrate creation, preservation and destruction; For these are the seasons of your life: Of your knowing and being.

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country.

The main thing I've learned is that we're better together and that our society needs inclusion - right? - not exclusion.

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape. After you grow up, you should start reading for other purposes

I'm not interested to change about the government. I'm interested to change the conditions for the people. So, yes, I talk a lot. But I think this is the only way for Italy in this moment.

If you want to do something and you have a goal, do it, don't wait, because your channel might change sometime soon - and quite unexpectedly.