His speech was a fine sample on the whole Of rhetoric which the learn'd call "rigmarole."

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.

Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the story.

Yes, burn your bridges.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

Don't sleep in the subway, darling.

We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.

I like Obama. I don't know who could do a better job. He's got an incredibly tough situation, and a good heart and mind. I'd like to see him rally support a little better.

People wonder why they have so little of God when God has so little of them.

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities.