Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

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.

When your heart jumps every time your camera locks focus...You've become a photographer.

There is no value to anything in this world, at the same time there is no need to ‘devalue’ anything.

In a world of hate, love is the revolution.

Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.

I wanted to avoid service, because I was on the road to becoming a professional basketball player.

I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.

You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away.

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.