It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.

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.

[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.

Poor breathing is to low energy as bad air filter is to low car performance.

In a district of ten families, there must be someone as honorable and sincere as I, but none as fond of learning.

All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days.

I want to do literally everything. I think I was gifted... I inherited one of the best comedy visionaries as a director.

Diversion and indifference are the two widest roads to Hell in today's world.

I never invest in anything that I don't understand.

We really can say no in 10 seconds or so to 90%+ of all the things that come along simply because we have these filters.

If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf