He who is only just is cruel; who Upon the earth would live were all judged justly?

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.

You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you" he said. "It would certainly make things easier if you did.

Things are more like they are now...than they have EVER been before!

... On the whole, the best fortress you can have, is in not being hated by your subjects. If they hate you no fortress will save you...

We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal.

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not.

Some of the most memorable moments I've had is to have my family along - who are our greatest ambassadors for peace. Politics will never bring peace, but people will.

She said I've heard you flying high on my radio I answered "It's not all it seems" That's when she laughed and she said, "It's better sometimes When we don't get to touch our dreams.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

The best way to have the last word is to apologize.