A feast not profuse but elegant; more of salt [refinement] than of expense.

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.

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.

Always forgive the person, who hurts you, because they are sick inside. But never forgive the person, who insults your love, because they are hell inside.

When I speak in English, my expressions become different. My attitude, too. I'm not sure why, but there really is a difference. My hands move differently when I speak English.

When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

I just want to go for it. In every aspect of my life and careers, I just want to give it all I have.

As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.

Honky Tonk Badonkadonk wasnt some serious song, but it was huge! It was funny.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.