I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.

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.

Colorful characters are the odd shaped pieces that fill the holes in life's puzzle.

Living with anyone for many years takes skill. To keep peace in the household, couples learn to adapt to one another, hopefully in positive ways.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.

In the music industry, you are in competition with everyone.

Although computers allow people to talk at the speed of light, no one talks that fast.

She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause.... "That I do still love you.

The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.

You don't really need modernity in order to exist totally and fully. You need a mixture of modernity and tradition.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.