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

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.

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.

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

I’ve always felt sorry for Mike Collins, driving all the way to the moon but not allowed out of the car to look around.

I suppose you can guess the whole story now? After all, it's a primitive story. A man had two enemies. He was a wise man. And so he discovered that two enemies are better than one.

I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.

To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.

Great dreams require great courage.

You'll never be happy if you can't figure out that loving people is all there is. And that it's more important to love than be loved. Because that is when you feel love, by loving somebody.

You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting.

The key to encouragement is in knowing what gives people courage; what spurs them on to action.

True fans stick behind bands through thick and thin and we've been lucky enough to have some amazing fans.

When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.