...I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead.

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.

To give your dream an honest try, is to persist and persevere for however long that it would take for it to meet its point of reality.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

Don't be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly! We exist in life to discover; if there is no discovery, there is no life!

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

The law protects nothing in that very respect, in which it is, at the same time, in the eye of the law, a crime.