Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

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.

We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

You should employ your little grey cells.

When you success you have to be very smart and be extra focused and protect your surroundings.

Artist awake or be forever fallen.

I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast

It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

LOVE is what gives joy to giving joy.