Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

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.

Look how we have made our broken hearts soar.

It is the devotee's job to chant God's name. It is God's business to keep count.

Freedom is knowing who you really are.

If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

You can't be scared. You do your thing, you hold your ground, you stand up tall, and whatever happens, happens.

We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.

[Nikola Tesla] was thinking of parts actually moving, like exchanging positions in space through time. This would go over here, then that would go over there, and then something else would happen.