If however the law is so promulgated that it of necessity makes you an agent of injustices against another, then I say to you ... break the law.

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.

Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

I stopped dieting on plain, boring, unsatisfying food and started eating rich, delicious meals full of flavor and, yes... fat. I got skinny on fat and realized I would never have to diet again.

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

We found the time and we put in the effort because being a label that different women can wear is really important to us.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.

We wear the mask that grins and lies.

Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.