Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
Bernard BerensonIt makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
Bernard BerensonI would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.
Bernard BerensonGovernment is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
Bernard BerensonIt was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember - I need not recall - that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one.
Bernard Berenson