We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible for couples who would otherwise have reconciled to do so.

I know you have not thought about it. Italians always act without thinking, it's the glory and the downfall of your civilisation. A German plans a month in advance what his bowel movements will be at Easter, and the British plan everything in retrospect, so it always looks as though everything occurred as they intended. The French plan everything whilst appearing to be having a party, and the Spanish...well, God knows. Anyway, Pelagia is Greek, that's my point.

What keeps me going is my children.

The real index of civilization is when people are kinder than they need to be.