She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

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 was what it meant to be a woman: to live in an unbearable agony hidden for a time behind smoke and mirrors.

More and more number of youths and adults get addicted to nicotine on daily basis.

A true innovator does best, what he doesn't know best.

Time is the author of authors.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

You will never have the answers, but you have to keep pushing yourself and keep reading and keep working on yourself.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.

I can't ask the offense to score slower.

Long ago I left heroics to the heroes