The fatal futility of Fact.

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.

Why are they going to disappear him?'I don't know.'It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

Compassion is not a sometime action

He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

Vocation is different from talent. One can have vocation and not have talent

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.

I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.

Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.

Modern American magic, late 20th century magic, is tremendously disrespectful of the audience.

Now everyone has eyes, and now everyone has evidence. That's really changed how we tell the news and what we get from it.

The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.