I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

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.

When you’re comfortable and content with who you are, the voices of others who try and define, control or direct you are not important.

Man plan his course but the Maker define his path.

I have no faith in the USA corporate government systems of protection of public health and safety.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge fitter to bruise than to polish.

I've been in a lot of fiery relationships, and it is so exciting. But there's a more profound feeling when the love is just real and not so painful.

If you find out what it is you love to do and give your whole life to it, then there is no contradiction, and in that state your being is your doing.

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

You don't have to live anybody else's story.

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.