I am ashes where once I was fire.

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.

Just because you are what you are, where you are, that does not mean you should continue to be there.

Bitterness is the cancer of bones.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.

Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.

For those who trust in the Divine all things are moving towards an everlasting state of happiness, and no matter what happens at any time to them, it contributes to that state.

Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

I want to go down as a winner.

When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

Trust cannot be bought or commanded, inherited or enforced. To maintain it, leaders must continually earn it.