Don't try so much to form your character - it's like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose. Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.

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.

I had a dream about you last night... you were there.

When a man finds the one woman who is right, it scarcely matters what else is wrong.

If not careful... there is possibility getting spoiled.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.

If you're doing your job properly, you take the risk of feeling slightly foolish and delve in and bring out the emotions.

Whatever you do in life, yoga shows you how to do it better.

The tailoring may be a softer, more draped, but I don't believe it's any less smart. For sure it feels more relaxed, it's a different kind of elegance, but I'd never call it casual.

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?