Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

Excellence does not require perfection.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

...our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives...

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Our walk by faith, if it is true biblical faith, will get us in trouble.

It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind

You can't jump off a cliff when you have already fallen off a bigger one.

I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.

I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.

Among of green stiff old bright broken branch come white sweet May again