I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Pope Francis

A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.

Mahatma Gandhi

Art is so subjective, and people can react however they want.

Jennifer Aniston

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

Quentin Crisp

High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I'll take with me the rest of my life.

Giancarlo Stanton

Inexorable facts connect our consciousness with this body that we know; and that not merely as a whole, but the parts of it are connected severally with parts of our brain-action. If there is any similar connexion with a spiritual body, it only follows that the spiritual body must die at the same time with the natural one. Consider a mountain rill. It runs down in the sunshine, and its water evaporates; yet it is fed by thousands of tiny tributaries, and the stream flows on. The water may be changed again and again, yet still there is the same stream. It widens over plains, or is prisoned and fouled by towns; always the same stream, but at last 'even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.' When than happens, no drop of water is lost, but the stream is dead.

William Kingdon Clifford, Lectur

When I dream, I am ageless.

Elizabeth Coatsworth

Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread.

Louise Bogan

I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences.

Hollace M. Metzger

I got married about three years ago again to a wonderful German woman. Her name is Monika and she is beautiful. She is one of the biggest women Zappa fans I have ever met in my life.

Jimmy Carl Black

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Kahlil Gibran

And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

John Milton