if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

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.

Maybe Harry Potter is real and you're not.

There is a Moment in each Day that Satan cannot find

Success is the moon and happiness is moonlight.

Were you ever actually going to leave New York, or were you just saying that to get her to finally make a move?” “Clary,” said Luke, “I am shocked that you would suggest such a thing.

He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.

As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

All our best heroes are losers

There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them!

Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.

Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so.