"In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost."

"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought."

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."

"Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."

"The experience of this sweet life.L'esperienza de questa dolce vita."

"There is no greater sorrowThan to be mindful of the happy timeIn misery."

"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."

"Serendipity: Look for something, find something else, and realize what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for."

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man."

"Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue."

"If you talk the talk, you damn well better walk the walk."

"Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black."