A grave is such a quiet place.

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me.

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don't think it's possible for you to miss me as much as I'm missing you right now

There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Every day, do one thing to help someone without expecting anything in return.

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also.

There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

If I saved all the money I spent on beer, I'd spend it on beer.

Some people say to me, "My God, but Fidel Castro is a communist!" I say: "No, he was a messenger of God."

In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

It's so much easier to do it right than to do it wrong.