Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

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.

A deal's a deal. Nothing is for nothing. Everything has its price.

Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.

It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.

Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so dramatic, and it was so violent.

Jesus Christ is the only God who has a date in history.

I am fascinated by the indecisive moment and the peripheral view.

Had a dream, I was King, I woke up, still King

The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.