Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

After you have exhausted what there is in business politics conviviality and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

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.

It's human nature to gripe but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst but the best of our nature.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.