The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

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 best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

It may take us years and years to find our true calling in life. But one fine day, we eventually do find it! Till then make merry, laugh, fight, dance and enjoy the craziness...

I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set of students who would find it funny. But the cool students were like, 'Eeew!'

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

Stock-picking is like gambling: those who win well, seldom bet, but when they do, they bet heavily.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.

I don't really want to be the costar of anyone's life.

You cannot survive if you do not know the past.