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.

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

A peaceful man does more good than a learned one.