Come what may, I have been blest.

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.

I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same, but a continual growth.

You must believe that you can help bring about a better world.

Guidance requires action, but it does not guarantee safety.

I was created to fulfill a function and I failed in it. I negated my own existence.

If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They shouldbe a comfort and a protection.

One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity.

I would never abdicate, nor would I expect any other governor to abdicate, the responsibility to protect the people of my state.

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character.

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story.