It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
The family is the first essential cell of human society.
Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
See everything: overlook a great deal: correct a little.
The whole world is my family.
Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.
I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.
... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.
If God created shadows it was to better emphasise the light.