To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.

In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.

For Sunday breakfast, I make orange and ricotta pancakes, crepes and eggs. You know men, we usually go for breakfast because it's the easiest thing to cook and then we try to make it seem fancy.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

The longer it takes you to become successful, the harder it will be for somebody else to take it away from you.

If you accept the pain, it cannot hurt you.

I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.

Salvatore Ferragamo have done some nice handmade suits for me.

Breakfast is my specialty. I admit it's the easiest meal to cook, but I make everything with a twist, like lemon ricotta pancakes or bacon that's baked instead of fried.

For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.

Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.

I don't like playing playstation. It seems like a waste of time to me. Reading, instead, leaves something inside you.

Measures of sterilization should, in my opinion, be very definitely confined to persons who are mentally defective

The most important thing for me as an actor playing a character is to make you laugh. That's my No. 1 goal.

Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.

Surely love has nothing to do with the mind, it is not the product of the mind; love is entirely independent of calculation, of thought.

People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.

But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]