Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

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.

If the nineteenth century was a time of education for women, it was no less a time of education for men.

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you.

Understanding spirituality means that every day anger, pride, deceit and greed continue to decrease, will not increase.

This is why we all fight so hard. Not just for the vote, but for an equal opportunity in the world.

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

Writers have the purity of their art and what they want to achieve with that, and that this purity is bound up with the messy material conditions of trying to make a living while doing that work.

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

Courage is the only asset That will conquer in the fight If you have the will to mass it On the lines of truth and right.

I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.

At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.