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.

Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.

William Morris

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Henry Ward Beecher

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

Ronald Reagan

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

L. Estrange

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

William Blake

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

Faith Evans

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.

Bennett Miller

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.

Thomas Mann

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

A. R. Ammons