Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

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.

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

Reform must come from within not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

Now, I have a kid, I have businesses to take care of, I have to travel. I have to sit down... and find a little time for me.

Optimization hinders evolution.

Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.

Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still are no domestic kangaroos.

True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

North Carolina used to be reliably red. Now it's a battleground state.