“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.”

Inspiration and genius – one and the same.

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul

I wanted to model when I was younger.

The idea of justice – even just dreaming of justice – is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a status quo that is intrinsically unjust – and then tries to make it more accountable.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?

I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

I always envisioned myself having a traditional and elegant wedding.

I’m not letting any stupid decisions get in my way. I want to be a role model, letting girls know that they can follow their dreams.

To every one of us there must come a time when the whole universe will be found to have been a dream, when we find the soul is infinitely better than its surroundings. It is only a question of time, and time is nothing in the infinite.