Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

Miracle is the pet child of faith.

Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.