Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

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.

Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.

My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.

There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.

The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.

No actor forgets the times he couldn't get a job. I think everyone doing this operates from that fear. You don't want that momentum to stop when you get it

Avoid prologues: they can be ­annoying, especially a prologue ­following an introduction that comes after a foreword.

She just laughed in his face and told him she'd sooner crawl in a bed with his father's leeches before she'd crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.

Ruthless striving, overcomes everything.

Let your smile change the world! Never let the world change your smile!

Religion Caesar never knew Thy posterity shall sway, Where his eagles never flew, None as invincible as they.