Cesare Pavese

Love is the cheapest of religions.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.