History and legend and art and romance meet and mingle to create that indefinable sorcery of Venice. It is like nothing on earth except a poet's dream.

To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing

Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating.

When an object or purpose is clearly held in thought, its precipitation, in tangible and visible form, is merely a question of time. The vision always precedes, and itself determines the realization.

To live in Venice is like being domesticated in the heart of an opal.

The vision always precedes the realization

True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, - that is another matter.

it is far better to appreciate and not to possess, than to possess and not to appreciate.

Love is the reality of the soul.

There is no point of adventure if you have known about everything.I wonder how God deals with the situation, considering the boredom.

I think I might be bi-polar. It's not normal to be this emotionally unstable.

Percy: You just hit the lord of the titans with a blue plastic hairbrush.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

You can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust.

The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.

I'm very proud of my children. And they've done a wonderful job, and they've been wonderful, wonderful kids.

I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle.

Yeah, it’s me, but I like to think I looked better when we met. ‘Cause right now, I’m pretty much hogging all the ugly. (Nick)