If you haven't had your life what have you had?

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.

Success is a work in progress, failure is not the end of the road: it is the strength to continue that matters.

No matter how deep the whale swims, it will always surface.

Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

If women feel they are able to go from partner to partner without feeling emotionally invested and ultimately hurt, they should go for it.

Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought.

National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals.

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.

We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.