In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.

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.

That’s what I like about Polynesians. They wear their hearts on their sleeve knowing that, for adults, there are better games to play than hiding their emotions from each other

nothing can block your light. what's for you will be yours even when shade is thrown

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

I just want to go play, go win, What's going to happen is what's going to happen. I'm not worried too much about it.

Real success is doing things right every day by not forgetting to express love to your friends.