I should thank Mussolini for having declared me to be of an inferior race. This led me to the joy of working, not any more unfortunately, in university institutes but in a bedroom.

Babies did not attract me, and I was altogether without the maternal sense so highly developed in small and adolescent girls.

Find first peace within yourself. Don't eat too much. Keep your brain active. Love.

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.

You've been thinking about something without willing to for a long time...Then, all of a sudden, the problem is opened to you in a flash and you suddenly see the answer.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

After a short period spent in Brussels as a guest of a neurological institute, I returned to Turin on the verge of the invasion of Belgium by the German army, Spring 1940, to join my family. The two alternatives left then to us were either to emigrate to the United States, or to pursue some activity that needed neither support nor connection with the outside Aryan world where we lived. My family chose this second alternative. I then decided to build a small research unit at home and installed it in my bedroom.