The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.

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.

Not the way he looks, but specifically the way he looks at me threatens my inhibitions. It’s all greedy yearning.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

No amount of expertly choreographed PR could prevail, in the end, against Armageddon. It strolled over the barricades and took its pleasure.

You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really.

Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.

Whatever the reason, lying is a bad thing.

Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.

Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt.