But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

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.

Freedom on the inside comes when validation from the outside doesn’t matter.

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out

It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’

I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else.

I do get flak for the lack of romance in my stories.

Anybody not wearing a two-million sun block is gonna have a pretty bad day.

Bubba shot the jukebox last night, said it played a sad song and it made him cry.

A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.