There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them.

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 concept that man is not awake, and that only a fully conscious being can "do", have will and not be subject to the law of accident.

If you're calling for peace, I am not home.

No matter how hard we try, we are at best imperfect people. When we allow sin, we allow our imperfections to show.

Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind

New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.

Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

I'd rather be voted "the sexiest man in Denmark" than "the ugliest man in Denmark".

You're not hurt, are you?" "Only my delicate sensibilities.

The result of my hard work is that I'm financially independent, I have an amazing life, and I can do whatever I want. I don't have to answer to anybody.