Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

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.

If you can show people how to build castles, make sure you do not neglect building and nurturing your own.

If we can teach children to think beyond the five senses, we can raise a generation of leaders that will be able to sustain the future.

The solution is to trust yourself, to trust each other and to trust your connection with the Source of all Love and Light. To trust God.

You can be with the 'truth' or you can cheat yourself by believing the big lie in front of you is the 'truth'. Those who are with the 'truth' are a minority, whom you may call Utopians.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

When you're comfortable in your own skin, you look beautiful, regardless of any flaws.

Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

It's really all about your training. Whatever you train for, you'll be ready for.

Vice is its own reward.