Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

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.

I watched something vanish, as if I was in a dream from which I couldn't wake.

I don't need extra hours to clear my mind. I just need to stop taking everything seriously and drown myself in worry. All I need is to be a child again. To be free. And, start living again!

A filly who wants to run will always find a rider.

It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which insure success.

The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda.

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

Your life belongs to you and you alone.

It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.