Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.

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 spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

Did not the souls also of the righteous ask question of these things in their chambers, saying, "How long shall I hope on this fashion?" when cometh the fruit of the floor of our reward?

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.

A Good Samaritan is not simply one whose heart is touched in an immediate act of care and charity, but one who provides a system of sustained care.

I alone am different from the others, because I am nourished by the great mother.

That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.

But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

Number one on my top five is Beyonce.