I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

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.

Do you want to know what God’s will is for you? It is for you to become more and more like Christ. This is spiritual maturity, and if you make this your goal, it will change your life.

Librarian: taking the E.T. out of Libertarian.

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

There is no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

We need to pay as much attention to improper denials as we do to improper grants.

People reach a point of readiness for change when they reach their own personal bottom.

Pain is the precursor to change.