Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.

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.

This mix of love and hate, this blend of trust and hurt I have for him is so confusing even I can't understand it.He leaves, and I break.

She reminded me that I could write stories, /could be struck by lightning & live.

I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.

New York is a city where people are ambitious. They want things.

Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology

It's important to realize that whenever you give power to politicians or bureaucrats, it will be used for what they want, not for what you want.

I don't think about what other people want from me.

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

I worry constantly and obsess over things, but I just don't let fear stand in the way of doing something that I really want to do.

The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.