O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.
Oddly enough, my mother was born in Southampton. I have roots in Southampton, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor. My grandfather, her father, Stefano Rullo, when he came from Naples, he went to Pennsylvania and worked coal mines.
There can be a lot of longevity in the repetition of things being told again and again in a variety of ways.
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.