Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.

As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.

It is so difficult - at least, I find it difficult - to understand people who speak the truth.

Then she lay on her back and gazed at the cloudless sky. Mr. Beebe, whose opinion of her rose daily, whispered to his niece that that was the proper way to behave if any little thing went wrong.

Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.

A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.

The world pushes us with no mercy and when some push back the world points and cries EVIL

Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment.

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.

For me, cinema becomes grandiose when it imposes its own mythology and its own reality.

Remember your dreams and fight for them.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.