The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life. I wanted to follow Mr. Monte around for the rest of my life, learning everything he wished to share of impart, but I didn't know how to ask.

... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me.

(You) don't leave the chicken to watch the feed.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.

Families without songs are unhappy families.