There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

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.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

I suppose you've always been amazing at this stuff."- Clary "I was born amazing." - Jace

The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different.

The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.

I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.

Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.

We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)