“Children of that age often fall downstairs, you did. Twice. You only worry if there's silence when they reach the bottom.”

“Sober alkies are often asked: “When did you hit rock bottom?” but a more informed question might be: “How many times did you hit rock bottom?”

“When you think you have reached the limits of prestissimo, go twice as fast.”

“My philosophy is if you worry, you suffer twice.”

“When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.”

“Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But - why did you kick me downstairs?”

“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.”

“You burn the paper, but not the words. You silence the words, but not the thoughts. You kill the thoughts only if you kill the man. And you will find that his thoughts rise again in the minds of others - twice as strong as before.”

“"When you reach the bottom / you'll go up / you'll come up / or you won't come anymore"
(from Che cosa c'è, 1985)”

“When you were the commander of the Central Command, how much time, worry did you have on Iran? Was that your primary concern?
I don't have worry and stress. I cause worry and stress.”