Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

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.

On the way home Mary Lou said, "Some things are so sad you can't say them." But I pretended not to hear.

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.

The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.

I think the reason that very few people really fall in love with anyone is that they're not willing to pay the price.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your authentic being.

Modeling is being a ho, but making it fashion.