Send me no more reviews of any kind. I will read no more of evil or good in that line. Walter Scott has not read a review of himself for thirteen years .

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.

I have no words — alas! — to tellThe loveliness of loving well!

Knowing the why is vastly more important than knowing the how.

I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost. I felt like I found something when I saw you back there.

Every time, I reaffirm in myself that the more comfortable you are, the less you are creating. You have to feel a little bit of pain in the creation.

When a man's making love, the last thing he thinks about is war.

The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.

I’m not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music.

Work your fingers to the bone and what do you get? Boney fingers.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save, and to give.

Don't let's lose sight of what creates wealth. It is open markets, it is capitalism.