Little by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.

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.

History is yet to show us a person who stumbled across happiness while walking on the negative path.

Your testimony begins the moment you demonstrate livable truth.

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.

The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.

A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.

Your future is being determined by you right now, depending on the choices you make.

When I was younger, I didn't like shooting part, because I was more of a writer and didn't like being the center of it all.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

Once you're in the game, you forget about everything.

The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future.