Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

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 purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

He assumed that the shape of renewal is death and resurrection.

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

We're the first generation that doesn't need to be afraid of the media. We will become the media

I have done some formal acting training, because I sucked at acting when I first got to Los Angeles. I'm still one of the worst actors and auditions out there.

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

If you had a dime for every excuse you made, I wouldn't have to be here right now.

I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.