"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness."

"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"

"What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes."

"Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?"

"My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church materials that were created on our own personal time."

"I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives."

"Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it."

"I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way."