It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

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.

Dream while others are sleeping. Dare while others are wishing. Do while others are talking. Deliver while others are quitting.

It’s the people you hold closest who have the most power to make you bleed.

Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

Wars are started by the truth. Peace is proclaimed with lies.

I've found that writing and playing music has so little to do with will, and so much to do with just finding what's there waiting for you.

Libraries and demons," she muttered. "What is the attraction?

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.