I always want to know the things one shouldn't do." "So as to do them?" asked her aunt. "So as to choose." said Isabel

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 still have your pocket watch, my dear father. Like me, it is broken, but stubborn, and still keeps going.

We might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one

The more we walk the path first while becoming last and least in our organizations, the more we become like the Alpha and Omega whom we long to serve.

I do a lot of research on what people have done in the past.

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

It’s good to be vulnerable in amongst the grandeur; you shouldn’t lose that sense of intimacy and vulnerability with people.

Keep talking, someday you'll say something intelligent.

I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them.

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.