What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

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.

History cannot be erased or altered.Because that would mean killing yourself.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

Rummy is one of the easiest of all card games to learn. More people understand the rules of Rummy than of any other card game.

I go to dance clubs...about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going 'God, what idiots!'

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.

Even if virtually anything can be art, there are levels of quality.