We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

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.

Your dream is the prayer the Universe makes to you, because in its fulfilment it grows together with you.

What I learned on my own I still remember

It's pointless to hate anything. Just trick your conscience by pretending you like something and soon enough you will.

Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Par

Planning, awareness, and communication are essential in conducting all of our activities with a reasonable level of safety. Accidents are novelty gone bad.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.

Practice makes the master.

Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.

The life of entire surrender is a joyous life all along the way.