I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell!

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.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

Hope is the grace of a happy heart.

When your intuition speaks, listen. When your ego speaks, shut it up.

I've always been fond of the glam-rocker title.

To master fear is the most important battle to win.

When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great.