A quiet conscience makes one so serene.

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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Wisdom of the Ages: Another Bush in the White House-Yep they keep forgetting to grab the TV and silverware.

But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.

If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.

I've had a lot of baptism by fire.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

The best people in the world aren't those who never fail - but those who fail and learn something from it. I hope that your goal in life isn't to slide safely into death not having screwed up much.

I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.

Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.