And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

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.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Discover where and what makes you come alive and make a deliberate decision to live there.

The reason some people put on a mask is not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.

Personal loss is the greatest motivator to a call for action!

Surely all of us are nerved by one another, catch courage from one another.

We have to help African American people that, for the most part, are stuck there, Hispanic American people. We have Hispanic-American people that are in the inner cities and they are living in hell.

I love working with the right actor, and if the right actor happens to be unknown, that should be allowed, too, I think.

When you reach for a star, only angels are there. And it's not very far, just a step on a stair.

The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.

You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist, to do something difficult, doing it first for himself. That's my definition of sincerity.

The election process is a total fraud. If voters believe the process is secret, they will vote. If not, they will not.