When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

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.

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.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.

Let there be peace within my walls and prosperity within my palaces.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

eventually, everything goes away.

There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.

Age-old question: Is the glass half empty or half full? Answer: Who cares? Does it really matter whether the glass is half full or half empty? The issue is whether it quenches your thirst.

We do not tell old friends beneath our roof-tree that they are an offence to the eyesight.

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.

The one's who were mean to me are now nice to me.

I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people.