With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

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.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

What do I know about life? What does a windmill know about the wind?

Find my weak points, but more importantly, find yours.

You were born on a certain day, in a certain place, and on a certain time. God has a plan for you.

Life is for intense love

I'm obsessed with concerts.

There are so many tough opponents out there and tough competitors so I've never liked to look ahead.

I warn black Americans'don't get too mixed. A little is fine, but not to the point where you're out of the family.

I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men.