Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

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.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent but he who is without a dream.

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.

Obviously you try to keep as much of your private life as private as you can.

Someday love will find me in the rough. Someday love will finally be enough. I shine a little more lately.

The best way to stop girls achieving anything is to force them to achieve everything.

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

To give a child liberty is not to abandon him to himself.

It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people.

I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

Do married people live longer than single people or does it just SEEM longer?