A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.

Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

Today the West exists only to bear witness to its own obsolescence.

Just as we should never balance the budget on the backs of the poor, so it is an economic delusion to think you can balance it only on the wallets of the rich.

Love is a metaphysical gravity.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!