We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

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.

For an illuminated life, give yourself up for the service of others.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

It is a scholar's weakness, to run narrow and deep.

The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

Everyone needs a chance to evolve.

If technology is not a metaphor for memory, what is it?

Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right.

The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.