I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.

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.

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

I'm down to sell records but not my soul.

Sometimes you're only human and you learn.

[Prince] could very well be the Duke Ellington of Rock 'n' Roll.

I don't like going away from my children.

I have loved deeply. I have lost intensely. I will never love again. I get that love by people who care for me.

It's not what you are. It's what you do.

God said to Faldo, as He once said to Nicklaus, "You will have the skills like no other." Then he whispered to Ballesteros, as he whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more."