We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.

A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

You ought to read, mediate and affirm the living word of God.

The best the world has to offer comes from the best you have to give to others.

It turns out that I learned something from my dear old dad after all: firemen are experts at getting into places they shouldn't be.

Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him.

Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea.

That was the challenge. How can you tell the story here and make sure it goes the same way on the other side of the world?

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.