Hate generalizes; love is particular.

In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.

From Roman times to the present, Italy has been a country to fall in love with - a tribute to all that is enduring, crazy, pagan, joyous, melancholy, at once banal and divine, in the human spirit.

That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

The soul is awakened through service.