History is the devil's scripture.

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.

Life flows as a whole, both inside and out, but you divide life with your mind, both inside and outside.

What God originates, God orchestrates.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

The financial interdependence of the world's banks is like the interlocking alliances that predated World War I.

A strong foundation exists for immediate military action against Saddam Hussein and for a multilateral effort to rebuild Iraq after he is gone.

Two armies at death-grips — that is one great army committing suicide.

If I lose control, you'll be the first to know." "I'm quite perturbed by the idea.

I don't like people whose job it isn't to be funny, to tell me what is and isn't funny.

In the first place I remark that no human law is perfect in its construction or execution.

No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.