Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating.

To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing

When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes, and itself determines the realization.

To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal.

The vision always precedes the realization

True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, - that is another matter.

it is far better to appreciate and not to possess, than to possess and not to appreciate.

History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream.

Love is the reality of the soul.

There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom

Spiritual regeneration is a change on the inside of a person or nation as a a result of coming to Jesus, and a change of value system in his life

people believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance.

Prohibition is the trigger of crime.

There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

Spend 70% of your spare time doing things close to home and the other 30% doing work at the global and national level.

To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.