A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

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.

If you are opportunity oriented, you will find opportunities all around you. If you are problem oriented, you will see problems all around you.

Some people are like an open grave:You give it the thing you love mostAnd then get nothing in return.

My abiding faith in the American people is undiminished. That's still what drives me every single day.

My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.

There's absolutely no sort of acknowledgment or reward for this - except for the intangible of my kids growing up to be wonderful people.

Because with time, faith, and love...even our scars can become beautiful.

We have to believe that every person counts, counts as a creative force that can move mountains.

Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record.

When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to change the values of the movie.

If we don’t cannibalize ourselves, someone else will.