I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

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.

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objects and principles.

Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.

I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.

I was initially a leading man, but only on television.

Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.

My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!

You can't tell a story linearly if you want people to understand.

I spin on the circle of wave upon wave of the sea.

America believes in freedom. The English don't believe in it. They don't believe in happiness.

I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.