Art without life is a poor affair.

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.

If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools?

You can never get enough of adventure.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

Never repeat old grievances.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music.

Not only is health a normal condition, but it is our duty not only to attain it but to maintain it.

May peace-dreamers And peace-lovers Occupy the length and breadth Of the world.