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

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.

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.

If you’re not proud of what you do, you’re not done.

I always say to myself what is the most important thing we can think about at this extraordinary moment.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

I think a nice romantic dinner should be saved for when you and the girl you're dating or seeing have something special and it's a more special occasion.

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

It is in my soul to spread love and laughter.

the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents.

It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.