I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.

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.

To know what to do with time is to convert a day

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: Infinite.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Milk Duds. It doesn't' bother me that it gets stuck in my teeth or anything.

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy.

I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.

I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.