The drying up a single tear has more, of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.

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.

Surely even those immune from the world, for the time being, need the touch of one another, or all is lost.

I HAVE been around at a time when important things needed to be done

Everything I have learned has not come from books, it has come experientially over time under pressure walking with Christ".~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

If you know what you want, you will recognize it when you see it.

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.

I had to work with a psychiatrist.

Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.

Life is short is what some niggaz said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.