My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then.

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.

sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.

My question is whether America can overcome the fatal arrogance of power.

This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.

The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

And how do you really feel?Like I'll never recover. Like I'll never draw another breath without half of it being a wish for him.

You know, if you don't do nothin, you don't do nothin.

Extreme sport has only ever been about goals and the ways to achieve these goals. Adrenaline plays a part, but it's never in the foreground.

Nothing marks so much the solid advancement of a soul, as the view of one's wretchedness without anxiety and without discouragement.

The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.