leon Quotes

“Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.”

“I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.”

“I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.”

“And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.”

“I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.”

“He who stands with his face to the East in the morning will have the sun before him. If he does not change his posture, the Earth in the meantime having changed its, he will have the sun no longer before him, but behind.”

“Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.”

“Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.”