It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

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.

The plan to deal with fears: #1. Fear the Lord!#2. Let the Lord deal with the rest!

I said I was "just tired", but I never told you what I was tired of.

And there he was waiting for the song to end, but it started again, like it's on repeat, maybe he is never meant to be happy, maybe this is the only feeling life has for him.

The world is fast changing and until you learn to adapt and adjust to stand out from the masses, you will fade into oblivion

We cannot see what we don't believe.

Life was hard on mothers; but then, they just didn't understand.

I don't want to marry again. I did that.

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.