Umberto Eco

"Strength grows in moments of weakness we choose to face"

"Fear reveals what we value most"

"Power shared is power multiplied"

"Money is frozen dreams"

"Health is the silence of the body"

"Adventure is growth wearing a disguise"

"Imagination is the only tool that never dulls"

"Technology amplifies both our best and worst qualities"

"History does not repeat, but it rhymes"

"Philosophy is the art of living"

"Literature preserves what history forgets"

"Politics is the struggle for meaning in a meaningless world"

"War is what happens when words fail"

"Motivation is temporary, habit is permanent"

"Inspiration requires the courage to act"

"Relationships are negotiations between different universes"

"Solitude teaches us that we are complete as we are"

"The more you own, the more it owns you."

"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

"The task of the intellectual is to speak the truth and to expose lies."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"A text is a machine for generating interpretations."

"In every century there is a list of books that we must read."

"The author should die once the book is finished, so the reader is free to interpret."

"Travelling is like flirting with life."

"I think of the detective story as a kind of intellectual game."

"One cannot love without opening oneself to great suffering."

"There are four levels of meaning to every text."

"The real strength of a nation lies in its culture."

"We cannot escape our mythology."