Denying the heaviness of the Italian crisis, during the news conference after the end of the G20 summit held in Cannes, 3-4 November 2011: The life in Italy is the life of a wealthy country, consumptions haven't diminished, it's hard to find seats on planes, our restaurants are full of people.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

James Thurber

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

Proverb

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.

Robert Bork

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

No sé, todavía qué es lo que separa el aprecio del amor.

Jane Austen

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.

Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Va

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Simone Weil

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were entreating through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 2 Corinthians 5:20

Bible

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Oscar Wilde

Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications.

Daniel C. Dennett

The science which teacheth arts and handicrafts is merely science for the gaining of a living; but the science which teacheth deliverance from worldly existence, is not that the true science?

Nagarjuna

I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.

Jack Kevorkian