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Quotes by Italian Authors
"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."
"The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil."
"Fascism is a religious concept."
"Then Christ shall be clothed with all the beauty of the elect as if with a long tunic variously adorned, in which He shall shine as if covered with all manner of precious stones."
"There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely."
"War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms."
"The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love."
"Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour."
"It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman."
"The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty."
"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand."
"I support the recommendations made by the International Crisis Group. The primary responsibility is for Kosovo Albanians to demonstrate that their treatment of minorities is adequate."
"I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy."
"The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito."
"The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people."
"Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else."
"It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one."
"Sailed this day nineteen leagues, and determined to count less than the true number, that the crew might not be dismayed if the voyage should prove long."
"And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight."
"Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features."
"You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools."
"Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more."
"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
"The contribution of Islam to history and modern civilization is the product of the efforts of peoples of many races and tongues which came to accept its way of life."
"War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation."
"The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them."
"The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
"For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against."
"All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition."
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