"I was born near the Po and it is the only respectable river in all Italy. To be respectable, a river must flow throug…"

"Minutes and seconds are strictly city preoccupations. In the city people hurry, hurry so as not to waste a single min…"

"The party delegate was one of those gloomy, tight-lipped persons who seem to have been made for wearing a red scarf r…"

"But the young people of today are benighted creatures born with telephone numbers imprinted on their brains, and wher…"

"In the valley a bicycle is just as necessary as a pair of shoes, in fact more so. Because even if a man hasn’t …"

"‘Don Camillo, the system of teaching Christian charity by knocking people over the head is one that doesn&rsquo…"

"Italian humorist Giovanni Guareschi–a staunch anti-communist journalist and writer–coined a famous sentence to mock S…"

"If God exists, if there is a revelation, it cannot be anything other than that of Jesus Christ. Only here is there th…"

"There is indeed something unique about the way in which the memory of the Republic came to be formed, and about the w…"

"By electing Pope Joseph Ratzinger, the Catholic Church demonstrated, above all, its historical vitality and its prove…"