Now look at whoever is next to you. Look at them with eyes of joy and remember what St. Augustine said: 'If you want to see God, you have the means to do it.' God is love.
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Paolo Sorrentino
Paolo Sorrentino (Italian: [ˈpaːolo sorrenˈtiːno]; born 31 May 1970) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. 2Life and career Sorrentino was born in Naples. His first film as screenwriter, The Dust of Naples, was released in 1998. He also began directing short movies, including L'amore non ha confini in 1998 and La notte lunga in 2001. His feature-length debut was One Man Up (L'uomo in più), for which he was awarded the Nastro D'Argento prize. He achieved international recognition in 2004 for his thriller, The Consequences of Love (Le conseguenze dell'amore). The film, which explores the mindset of a lonely businessman being used as a pawn by the Mafia, won many awards and was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. Sorrentino's next feature, The Family Friend (L'amico di famiglia), was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May and the London Film Festival in October 2006. It tells the story of a malicious septuagenarian loan shark who develops a fixation with the beautiful daughter of one of his customers. Sorrentino made his acting debut with a cameo appearance in Nanni Moretti's film The Caiman (Il caimano), which was also shown at the 2006 London Film Festiva
Lenny: Young people like you love adventures. Sophia: Holy Father, may I remind you that we're the same age? Lenny: We used to be the same age.
I won't say the names of those who are guilty in this. There are too many of them. We are all guilty. We are all guilty of war and death. Always.
You don't know how wonderful peace is. You have no idea how disconcerting peace can be. But I know. Because I saw it when I was eight years old on the banks of a river in Colorado peace. It was beautiful.
A good person is somebody who puts himself last, who renounces his own temptations and needs, working only for the interests of others.
Writers are all so obsessed with mystery. They can’t afford to solve the mystery, because the next day they’d become irrelevant.
All intelligent men are uncomfortable on vacation.
As for traveling: everyone dislikes traveling until they actually go on a trip.
It's death to settle for things in life.
My only sin, and it's an enormous one, is that my conscience does not accuse me of anything.
Look up. Do you see the sky? Do you see God? No? No matter. Now look at the person next to you. Look joyfully upon him, and remember what Saint Augustine said: "If you want to see God, you have the means to do it. God is love.
Virtuosity is for the arrogant.
I do not have an image, my good lady, because I am no one. Do you understand? No one. Only Christ exists. Only Christ. And I'm not worth forty-five, or even five euros. I am worth nothing.
Think of all the things you like. There, that's what God is.
The Vatican survives thanks to hyperbole.
You can't measure love with numbers, you can only measure it in terms of intensity.
I love God because it is so painful to love human beings. I love a God that never leaves or that always leaves me. God, the absence of God Always reassuring and definitive. I am a priest, I have renounced my fellow man, my fellow women, because I don't want to suffer, because I'm incapable of…