I awoke one day to find myself famous.

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.

I have found that there are two ways of dealing with men. Either you treat them with respect, or you kill them. Anything in between merely breeds resentment and the desire for revenge.

When an eagle spreads its wings to fly, even the swan is envious.

What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.

I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years.

Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.

The career of a great man remains an enduring monument of human energy. The man dies and disappears, but his thoughts and acts survive and leave an indelible stamp upon his race.

I normally live in Los Angeles, if you can call it normal living.

Ive always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.