Author Nationality

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Nationality : Italian

I love to doubt as well as know.

Nationality : Italian

From a little spark may burst a flame.

Nationality : Italian

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

Nationality : Italian

No press conference announcing a last film. I’d just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not – like Sinatra – have to say: “Well, I’ve thought it over and decided to come back.”

Nationality : Italian

Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

Nationality : Italian

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Nationality : Italian

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.

Nationality : Italian

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars – when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

Nationality : Italian

Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Nationality : Italian