It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

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.

She wielded the ultimate weapon against him, his kryptonite - her touch.

How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us.

The whole process of winning the pageant has been so amazing, I'm really excited to move forward into all kinds of projects.

I do think everything that happens in American pop culture sort of prescribes for England and does end up happening there six months later, maybe a year.

My books arose from my own experience, when I sought guidance in practical leadership in my career. In sum, I strive to write the kind of book that I would find valuable in my own life.

Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.

Our sexual energy, when not properly mastered, is transformed into anger.