To be strong is to be happy!
Pertini has interpreted as their best the worst about Italians.
Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity.
The only advice that I'm in the mood to give - and that I give regularly - to young people is this: fight for what you believe in. You will lose, just like I have lost, all the battles. But only one you may win. The one that you engage every morning, in front of the mirror.
The love of power excludes all others.
An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.
You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
The arrogance of poets is only a defense; doubt gnaws the greatest among them; they need our testimony to escape despair.
I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.