Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.

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.

Dove la moralità è troppo forte l'intelletto perisce.

I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind.

There's a big difference between hating someone in peace and hating someone during war.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

Trying to sneak a fastball by Ted Williams was like trying to sneak a sunbeam by a rooster in the morning.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

Allow yourself to be out of your depth at all times.

Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites. There is nothing to fear in that.

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.