Critics are already made.

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.

Marriage to the groom does not means that his heart belongs to the bride.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

As an American people, what is greatest about our history are the many times we have led this world away from hate, towards hope.

I was a very bad student. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want to go farther in school. I hated school and was always the bad one; I was always insulting the teachers.

Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.

And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

Although money alone won't make us happy, the lack of money surely will make us miserable.