The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

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.

When choosing your relationships, be guided by your life’s purpose, your vision and your dreams.

And I remind you of your mother now? I have got to look into a manlier cologne.

I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!

Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.

I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?

The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.

I had trouble hanging around [Shelley Long] until we stood onstage together, and then I was in heaven.