Umberto Eco

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Youth is wasted on the young.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Blows are sarcasm’s turned stupid.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. They prefer suffering that is familiar to the unknown.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet, drink, and botanical medicines.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.

Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.