A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

Human beings are obscured by their desire to have and their greed to own preventing their natural cause of "being

It's very difficult to take candid portraits of children because they're moving around all the time.

An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.

When belief in a god dies, the god dies.

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

I saw the abyss of my misery; whatever there is of good in me is Yours, O Lord. But because I am so small and wretched, I have a right to count on Your boundless mercy.

If you are the boss it's wise to remember that there are lots of things you don't know and lots of people who hope you won't find out.

I think that's what keeps you grounded - having your own life that's not directed by your job.