A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

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.

The song you write may be beautiful, the research you conceive may be beautiful, but you are the real beauty in life.

Life is about trust. Nothing happens until you take a step out. The universe gives nothing to those who do not trust.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

Effort is required to live life of others, but to live our own every action comes all and only natural.

We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.

People in the UK will say that the design community in the US is much more coherent than other countries. It has no government support at all, so it's really like a grass roots thing.

I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.