For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

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.

Amphibians—the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

Our cemeteries are full of people who prayed to live.

And mo the merier is a Prouerbe eke. [The more the merrier.]

Let there be no ambiguity about the American view that Syria's lack of cooperation .. is not acceptable.

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent.

How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple arbor.

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.

What is more miserable than discontent?