Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

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.

I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban.

The best part about being a stand-up is the connection with the audience. There's nothing more gratifying then when you can make 300 people applaud and stand up - because that's all you.

We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

You wait for nothing if not for the word that will burst from the deep like a fruit among branches.

there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

It is so surreal to come into a shop and see pictures of myself everywhere and hear my album playing.

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

I want to become the first European floor leader to succeed in the NBA. I want to be the standard-bearer and prove we can succeed here.