Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

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.

When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.

I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

Your dad and I have been talking.”“You need to stop that. The marriage will last longer.

I just try to be myself and not conform to something I'm not and just continue doing what I do. I just try not to think about the fact that I'm an inspiration for people.

This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities' ability to deal with the adversity.

Effective psychotherapy works because the therapist continues to grow as a person and as a healer.

To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.