Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived.

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.

People who always want to be at convenient places won’t make a change at controversial places.

The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.

Be who you are - whatever you are.

Donald Trump is toast.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth.

I wasn't interested in fabricating things and altering what I did to make hit records.

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.