I've seen your stormy seas and stormy women, And pity lovers rather more than seamen.

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.

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights.

The clothes of Courreges are so nice.

NBC's The West Wing is an icon for bad stories; Gitmo is a place where we keep an eye on evil, dangerous people who want to kill us.

I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

All markets have boom and bust cycles, and I think venture capital market has even more exaggerated boom and bust cycles.

Change is inevitable in music - things change.

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.