No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

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 are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because we don't know what to do with it.

It's all about Perfection or the tolerance of Imperfection

Imagine life as ... black can become white, and white can become black. But white can remain if you show love and respect.

The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

I don't want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them.

Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.

My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.

Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them.

I've always done a bass and drum solo that lasts about 10 minutes. The main thing is to use it only when you need to.