It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

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.

The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

My experience is the opposite.

The important thing was that I was still on the radio.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference.