To subjugate another is to subjugate yourself.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

waging war against inane language that circulates almost automatically is a writer's eternal mission, and the day will never come when this battles are unnecessary.

There is little that a puppy won't fix, even if the fix is for a short time.

People do not by default follow the strongest, but they follow the bravest

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

I am more interested in revolutionary beauty than in the great beauty, to be honest. Italian cinema is now mostly a bureau for tourism. We have given up that revolution of the contemporary.

For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

Writing for children is as easy as describing the history of the Byzantium in three words.

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone.

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.