If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

To create something you must be something.

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!

It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.