He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

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.

Freedom means equality. If you don't believe in equality for all, you don't believe in freedom.

We do not preach against people, we preach against sin.

No one is born with a talent. Talent is something we create on our own with practice and dedication.

Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.

Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes.

I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.

I think that the relationship between two top-level athletes who are rivals is one of the most fascinating human relationships to explore. It's always one atom away from being a tragedy.

Even though I play guitar, I don't do it publicly.

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.