What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

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.

Oh, look at that, he's heard of me. My fame grows.

I live by grace, in the light of God.

When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.

Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.

The numbing lists of things you were supposed to have as an American to make you happy, which ultimately, of course, don't. Those aren't the things that make you happy.

I always look back and say I should have made more. It should have been more lucrative, but it wasnt.

Why go to the ends of the earth if you have nothing to give?

You put faith in people sometimes that can't deliver for you. And those are mistakes and you have to... don't work with them again. It's pretty easy.

My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

Consider your possessions loaned to you by God.