The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.

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.

There is no opportunity for a sale at the success store.Find it yourself

Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves. It's just a stupid dream.

Bland as a Jesuit sober as a hymn.

atrophy of feeling creates criminals.

I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent.

You think you are alone. Then you raise your eyes, and you are surrounded.

Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants.

It's fantastic that the world is becoming more open to different ways of working, but we still have a long way to go in terms of changing perceptions.

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.