Frienship is eros...without wings

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.

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

To live in a peaceful home is to experience paradise on earth

Make sure you live, ' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?

No matter what the circumstances, no man can completely escape from vanity.

The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

All writing is a process of elimination.

Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.