I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.''I don't think he is, ' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people

Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It's supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

I’ve always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can’t shut myself out from His mercy.

Don't strive to be beautiful from the outside, instead, strive to be beautiful from the inside, Surface beauty will fade through time & age, beauty from the heart, however, never will!

I like to start slowly, and then ease up as the day progresses.

If envy were a fever all the world would be ill.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.

I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.

I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

People come to see the players. Nobody ever bought a ticket to see a manager.

All the world is happy when Santa Claus comes.

I've always worked at the piano; I like to hear what I'm doing, I like the sound, to hear the actual sound. I get bored just looking at a manuscript.