Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

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 never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Beauty is all around you. To find it, you need love filled eyes to search for it.

Anarchy is merely the illusion of liberty.

The only certain freedom's in departure.

I'm actually really shy.

Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit by a car, I want to know that I have deep and real friendships, people to visit me in the hospital.

My only interest in women's clothes is what's underneath them.

Bravery is not being afraid to be afraid.

A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.