Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise.

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.

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

You belong to the world. Don’t be afraid to be a part of it.

We have no destiny assigned us:Nothing is certain but the body

You are never too old to learn more than you already know and to become able to do more than you already can.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.

In a town church the right place for the admission of light.

Good council has no price.

Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.

One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.