To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

It’s not that I can’t remember. It’s that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past disowning it whenever it can.

Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?

I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?

Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

"Picasso" is of Italian origin, as you know. And the name a person bears or adopts has its importance.

I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do. It gives them a sort of familiarity that other people don't have.