If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth

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.

Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words.

Sin is a fact of life. It is the way we deal with it that changes ours.

Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.

I prefer the sorts of words that go their own way and are very choosy about where they end up. They don't fall for the first frillily syllabled thing to come along.

I write dozens and dozens of pages more than I need, and then edit them down to size. It's more like sculpture than construction.

Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits

I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.

I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.