I am not afraid that I shall exaggerate the value and significance of life, but that I shall not be up to the occasion which it is.

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.

There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.

I'm one of these people that if I have a nice holiday - like I have had in Turkey repeatedly - I go back a lot.

I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter

Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

People get mad Annabel. Its not the end of the world.

I'm all sentimental. I've probably been ruined by romantic movies, but I really do believe in love. I've experienced it, I've had it, so I know it's real.

Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this world, and not many writers can say that.

For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is akin to asking one to recall their three favorite sunsets.