"He [Fidel Castro] is the idea that never dies . The ones that are criticising him in a few years will not even be on Wikipedia anymore. Fidel and the cuban revolution are History."

"Berlinguer was an honest person, but that's not enough to be a communist."

"Nowadays he's depicted as a reciprocal of Hitler, his name serves the purpose of fighting communism. Yet just remembering him makes the bosses tremble. He built the first socialist state and without him nazism would have won. His Russian name is translated as "steel". Stalin, terror of the fascists and of the false communists. Honor and glory to you!"

"Seventy years ago people used to die for this idea [communism] [...], in Turin the members of the Communist Party, during the Resistance, had to endure 8 hours of torture. Fascists] would pull your eyes out with teaspoons, they'd rip your nails out with tweezers. And you had to stay silent for eight hours, and only after that you were allowed to confess and give the names of your comrades, and that was a Party guideline, to ensure the comrades' flight in those eight hours. Those men and women died for this idea. And what's politics today? They must be rolling in their own grave, can't you see that?"

"I dreamed of a friendly machine to which you could delegate all those manual tasks which are prone to errors. A machine that could quietly learn and perform tasks, that could store simple data and instructions, that could be used by anyone, that would be inexpensive and the size of other office products which people used. I had to create a new language which did not need interpreters in white coats."

"Everything is on loan in life—everything."

"There is nothing more beautiful than a beautiful woman."

"Doing things without giving the impression of suffering is a question of good manners."

"I even believe aesthetics are like ethics. Something that is beautiful is ethical, and unethical things aren’t beautiful."

"I like the wind because you can’t buy it."

"Not with violence, but with words."

"Those who pray take care of the most important of all."

"Serve the Lord joyfully! [Servite Domino in laetitia!]"

"With the works of charity we closed the doors of hell and open ourselves to the sky."

"Be cheerful, do good, and let the sparrows chirp."

"If young people are educated properly, we have moral order; if not, vice and disorder prevail. Religion alone can initiate and achieve a true education."

"I'll wait for all my young people in heaven."

"Kindness of speech, in word, in advising conquers everything and all."