And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

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.

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

I'm a punk rocker. I don't do Christian.

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

If we choose to believe that we're responsible for our experiences, the good and the so-called bad, then we have the opportunity to outgrow the effects of the past. We can change. We can be free.

Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.

It quickly becomes apparent that in the gray area between jazz, R&B and soul, Tony Adamo is one of the top voices.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.