Carmelo Pistorio

“You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
― Graham Greene, The Third Man

“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli