Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.

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.

She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…

I am a deeply superficial person.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

Whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself, they're much less than the consequences of selling your soul.

Market society is a game where you win by making sure other people are better off with you than without you.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.

The Stones in a club is still the ultimate rush.

Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.

All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.