In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

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.

Good friends will share the umbrella. Best friends will steal it and yell: It’s Awesome, Now Run!

Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!

Larry Bird is like a basketball god to me for what he's done for my career.

I got the sneaking suspicion that the vampire was a couple of Peeps short of an Easter basket.

Working in television is very hard. I think people know that.

Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.

The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.