There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

United we stand, divided we fall.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

To be prepared is half the victory.

There is one person who sends me three cards every year. One on New Year's, one for my birthday and the third that marks the anniversary of my flight into space.

I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

This is the final test of a gentleman: his respect for those who can be of no possible value to him.