Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

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.

My religion is no way of knowing me.

Obscenity is whatever gives a judge an erection.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.

There is only one proof of ability - action.

What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason.

To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.