I have seen almost more beauty than I can bear.

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥

I thought that there were two rules in life - never count the cost, and never do anything unless you can do it wholeheartedly. Now is the time to live.

But then, I am always being overwhelmed. I require it to sustain life.

Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary; That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases; Lonely and wet and cold, but that I kept my dream!

I shall go on some last wilderness trip, to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time.

While I am alive, I intend to live.

Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.

I have been in many beautiful places, and did not wish to taste, but to drink deep.

I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

You can't write a poem until you live.

The Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean are a six-day boat ride from Madagascar, and their only inhabitants are French scientists.

I performed at Mom and Dad's party when I was four. Oh my gosh, I was singing a Madonna song, and I peed myself!

My wonder button is being pushed all the time.

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.

No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.

I believe that people have to be sensitized more about the many jobs an individual can branch out to after studying an art form.