Weather creates character.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

to have a crisis, and act upon it, is one thing. To dwell in perpetual crisis is another.

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.

One feels a quickening of the pulse when one crosses a border.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.