Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I 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.

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

You appreciate that it is very easy to die and you have to arrange your life to cope with that reality.

Put on the company hat.

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.