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

Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them

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.

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

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

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

I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do.