I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.

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.

There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.

Everything that we see about us that we count is our possessions only comprises a loan from God, and it is when we lose sight of this all-pervading truth that we become greedy and covetous.

It's SO much worse in high school! People talk about who's dating with such GRAVITY, like they're talking about wikileaks.

My goal in my career is to inspire people, is to get my music out there and have people enjoy it, and have people think of me as an inspirational artist.

The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.

My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.

The idea that America has cornered the market on anti-immigration is ridiculous. It's a global phenomenon.

Music for us is about articulating the feelings you can't put into words.

It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey.