She wasn’t ready for this kind of distraction he caused her. It was bad enough she found him attractive, but having a attractive man in her home was just asking for trouble.

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.

In a sense, we are better prepared to praise God than the angels are, for angels have never known the joy of redemption.

Italy's youngsters complain, apparently, about having to live at home until they are 72 but that's because they spend all their money on suits and coffee and Alfa Romeos rather than mortgages.

There's something about lonely nights and my lipstick on your face

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us.

Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes.

Anyone who takes a hit for Adrian Ivashkov deserves some credit.