As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.

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.

A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted.

Who am I to judge me?

Clear out all of those doubts and fears. Let the past be the past. It's time.

The real love is when you wish to give something and not to get.

Recommending or insisting on abstinence has been completely ineffective.

To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

People should not be responding to bigoted ugliness with any ugliness of their own.