Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

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 need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.

Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom.

I am worthy of touch without bartering my self worth.

A speculator gambles that a stock will go up in price because somebody else will pay even more for it.

Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they're going to defend people.

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.