Giovanni Guareschi

“A man who has no enemies is a man who has never done anything.”

“The Lord is not a Christian. The Lord is the Lord.”

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”

“A bicycle has a soul. If you succeed in loving it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget.”

“I am a man who has never been able to separate the serious from the humorous.”

“The only truly happy people are children and the saints.”

“God created the world, but he didn't sign it.”

“To make a man a saint, it is not necessary to give him a halo, but rather a good pair of shoes.”

“In the Small World, the sun is yellow, the sky is blue, and the problems are always the same.”

“It's a mistake to believe that you can't be both a believer and a free man.”

“He who has not the spirit of his age, has all the misery of it.”

“When you have to deal with a communist, you must have two things: a crucifix and a good shotgun.”