If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

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 wasn't that he didn't love me, because I knew he did. As for me, I loved him so much it hurt.

If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.

The worst thing about being strong is no one recognizes the beauty in strength or the love behind it.

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers.

And if I'm not forgiven, then at least I'm understood.

While we're talking, time will have meanly run on... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest.

Grandfather kicked the stop pedal, and my face gave a high-five to the front window.

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

I call that man idle who might be better employed.