Renzo likes to quote thoughts and poems, both in his classes and on social media and in conversations with friends. They are excerpts from works by philosophers, writers, artists, politicians... Below is a small selection of some of these favorite quotes from the master:
 

"I opened my heart for the delights of chance." 
Gabriel Garcia Marquez 
 

"Life is darkness if there is no will, 
but will is blind if there is no wisdom, 
wisdom is vain if there is no work
and work is empty if there is no love." 
Khalil Gibran 
 

"Life is not about finding yourself. 
Life is about creating yourself." 
George Bernard Shaw 
 

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, 
to win glorious triumphs, 
even though checkered by failure, 
than to rank with those poor spirits 
who neither enjoy nor suffer much, 
because they live in a gray twilight 
that knows not victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
 

"I used to be from here, 
and today I return a foreigner, 
a stranger to what I see and hear, 
old of myself.
I've seen everything, even what I've never seen, nor what I'll never see. 
I reigned in what I never was." 
Fernando Pessoa 
 

"Who, if I cried, among the legions of Angels would hear me?
And even if one of them took me
unexpectedly in his heart, would annihilate me his existence too strong...
Since, what is the Beautiful
but the degree of the Terrible that we still endure
and that we admire because, impassive, it disdains destroy us?
Every Angel is terrible."
Rainer Maria Rilke 
 

"Above all, to my love I'll be attentive
First and always, with care and so much
That even when facing the greatest enchantment
By love be more enchanted my thoughts.
 
I want to live it through in each vain moment
And in its honor I'll spread my song
And laugh my laughter and cry my tears
When you are sad or when you are content.
 
And thus, when later comes looking for me
Who knows, the death, anxiety of the living,
Who knows, the loneliness, end of all lovers
 
I'll be able to say to myself of the love I had:
Be not immortal, since it is flame
But be infinite while it lasts."
Vinicius de Moraes


"That person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero."
Stan Lee