The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space.

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.

The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

When your goal is not fame or notoriety, you can simply show up, offer compassion to people, and let God do His work.

Let the creatures other than man also breathe freely. Remember that earth belongs to all the creatures living in this planet.

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

A lot of my effort is to get people to talk about gender in a new way and to see that sexism and gender issues are so ingrained in us.

Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.