A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

- Fausto Cercignani

As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.

- Fausto Cercignani

If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

- Fausto Cercignani

Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

- Fausto Cercignani

Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

- Fausto Cercignani

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route…

- Fausto Cercignani

Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.

- Fausto Cercignani

We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.

- Fausto Cercignani

Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

- Fausto Cercignani