I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

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.

Faith is a fine inventionWhen gentlemen can see, But microscopes are prudentIn an emergency.

Greatness is not dependent on your background, it is dependent on how much value you were able to add to yourself per time.

I wish every day could be Halloween. We could all wear masks all the time. Then we could walk around and get to know each other before we got to see what we looked like under the masks.

sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.

Do not go through life; grow through life.

Blood is not destiny.

They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets.