I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.

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.

You have to see the good in yourself before expecting someone else to see the good in you. Be aware of who you are and what you can truly be.

I've been wondering, " Isabelle commented reflectively over dessert, "if it is foolish to make new memories when you know you are going to lose them.

The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.

There are bearded fools.

There is nothing good in love but the physical part.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.