Beauty, well, it's one of the greatest, greatest gifts. I feel sorry sometimes because people are so worried and so involved in something that they don't have even five minutes to look at something beautiful.

You would think that as you get older you would be more disciplined. As I get older I get less disciplined. I just play around!

Alcohol is certainly one of the most abused drugs since ever and ever, since Dionysus. They say have a glass of wine at dinner, which was done in the Latin countries. In Italy we always had a glass of wine at dinner. It is a good thing. But if you have dozens of glasses of wine at dinner it is not so good.

Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.

We are to eat food otherwise we don't live and sometimes we eat food that is very damaging.

Teenagers have to be sustained; they have to be given something to live for and something that involves them without having to make a child, a human being.

It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one.