One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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.

Just for the record, I have come to fear all of your ideas in advance, simply from having endured enough of them.

All nations that are civilized and do not accept this kind of action as representing any sort of legitimate political cause are coming together to fight these terrorists.

The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.

Character is the architect of the being.

The great powers claim that whatever they possess is theirs by right, but whatever we, the smaller countries possess is negotiable.

If at all possible, commune with nature daily.

If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

If there's any relevant influence we may have with an investor, with a studio, with a director, with an actor, I think we have to fight.