It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

The only real people are the people who never existed.