Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

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.

The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.

Whatever you are waiting for won’t come to you

Christ broke the bonds of death by His resurrection, and from that moment on, Satan was a defeated foe.

When they told me I couldn't sit on the Senate floor with an iPad - that the technology wasn't even permitted - I breathed deep and knew that I was going to have to start pushing.

Probably 90 percent of my albums have polka medleys.

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

If I see a spider in my house, I put it in a cup, and then I take it outside. I save it. What is wrong with me?

You go on reacting to the image not to the person, and hence there is no relationship. When there is no image, then there is relationship.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.