The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

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.

Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can’t pull up their socks. If only it were that simple.

It is my last night here, and I suddenly feel quite tearful, sitting up in my usual window.

Full many a gem of purest ray sereneThe dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior.

Nigeria is one of the best-kept secrets.

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

You won't be caught off guard and you won't feel guilty, because you'll be spending money that you've allocated for the occasion.

You can't dream unless you know what the possibilities are.