But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.

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.

The novel is the privileged vehicle of two ways of being: narrative and freedom: to be new (novel) in a speech open to all, and to be free in a speech that never concludes.

I have always known there is a difference between loneliness and aloneness. I am alone, but my father is lonely. And if I had to choose one, I would rather be alone.

I’m a bit-part actor in my own life

To me, not every black filmmaker who is making black films is trying to make black cinema.

Love between a man and woman is war.

The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.

At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.

Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.