Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy!

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.

Death is more meaningful than just being dead.

Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.

Life is too short to surround yourself with people who aren't looking out for you.