He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.

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.

And so, let me repeat: who wants to believe - let them believe. But I do not want to believe, I want to know.

Ricewind had always relied on running away. But somerimes, perhaps, you had to stand and fight, if only because there was nowhere left to run.

I just felt being part of my peer group so strongly. I was immersed in teen culture, but not taken in by it.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian.

Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

It is unnatural in a large field to have only one shaft of wheat, and in the infinite Universe only one living world.

I have never experienced another human being. I have experienced my impressions of them.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.