True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

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.

Intelligent women always marry fools

Music is supposed to be interwoven into the fabric of society; it is not supposed to be a plaything that is there to serve the population's titillation of the moment.

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Compared to Clinton, I feel like a loser. I can't even get the intern to make me coffee!

There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism.

A rose on time is more valuable than a $1,000 gift that's too late.

What children can do with the assistance of others might be in some sense even more indicative of their mental development than what they can do alone

We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share with those who were deprived.

You have to learn how to help a wounded child while still practicing mindful breathing. You should not allow yourself to get lost in action. Action should be meditation at the same time.

Ive just taught thousands of people over the radio in the USA how to mend broken watches and broken house appliances. I am a catalyst or trigger to access these powers.