Which ever one of you will want to become a journalist, let him remember to choose his own master: the reader.

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity.

Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too.

Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.