No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

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.

Sin pierced the very heart of God. God felt every piercing nail and spear thrust. God felt the burning sun. God felt the mocking derision and the body blows.

If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

When true hearts lie wither'd And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This bleak world alone?

I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

If you have the desire and passion to do something, and it's within God's will, you will achieve it.

I acknowledge that I have no idea who the hell I am, and I think that's the first step.

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.