I am never long even in the society of her I love without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

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.

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived.

You were listening at the door, Gigi!""No, Grandmamma.""Yes, you had your ear to the keyhole. You must never listen at key-holes. You don't hear properly and so you get things all wrong.

We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.

She lay in the dark and knew everything.

When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.

I always think of baseball as so existential. Like, you're just out there in a field, in a big expanse of green grass.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.