Writing is not primarily escape, but use.

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.

i know it all ends the same, but i was interested in seeing how you would break my heart.

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.

We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language.

You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.

In our interactions with others, gentleness, kindness, respectare the source of harmony

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

No bird can fly without opening its wings, and no one can love without exposing their hearts.

Signs cannot be represented, in a spy's report, so damningly as words.