You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

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.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

Down the steps, ...over the corpses, ...careers the pram with the child.

Security... it's simply the recognition that changes will take place and the knowledge that you're willing to deal with whatever happens.

We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.

We still have systems we don't need, we have infrastructure we don't need. Why do you have over 900,000 bureaucrats working in one way or another in all these systems.

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.

There is but one unconditional commandment ... to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.