A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

I assumed I would be better off telling you about this, rather than waiting for the entire thing to blow up in my face.

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.

Men and women who know the brutal reality of war, who know that war strips people of their very humanity, must unite in a new global partnership for peace.

I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me.

Obviously input is helpful to faculty in trying to come up with a curriculum, but ultimately it's the faculty's job to know what students need to know. Make a decision about it and present it.

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing.