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

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

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

I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

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.

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.