The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

The only true language in the world is a kiss.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.

The only truth is love beyond reason.

Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act.

Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with a good fresh bread to wipe up.

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

I get totally out of myself. It's the closest I come to not existing, I think, which is the best - which is to me attractive.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

I think the world has moved on.

Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

I write poems to figure things out

The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.

Make me remember you like you remember me.