There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.

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.

And the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

Man's best friend is a really good plan!

You can't do something forever.

We slit the Catholic throat, stoned the poor on such slogans as wish you could hear and love is all we need.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

I didn't expect to see Kim, but I'm gonna be professional when I really just want to sock her in the face

Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.

There must be a language that doesn't depend on words.

Not getting rid of [Donald] Trump because there's a slew of Republican voters that don't want to get rid of Trump.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?