Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

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.

God change us in every circumstance.

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

I always say to my religious friends, if a pool had even one turd in it, would you jump in?

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I'm the little guy in the group. People always root for the little guy.

I don't feel like I have a lot of reference to sexual innuendo on my songs.

I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech.

I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?