In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.

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.

Reading is one of the most common habit among the most successful people.

I married my first husband for love, my second husband for adventure, and my third husband for laffs.

Parenting the outside of the child is as useless as polishing a rotten apple.

The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun...

I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

I knew Rita Hayworth only enough to know that she was just a tender, sensitive, beautiful human being. A lovely person. Very gentle. She would never stand up for her rights.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

Old age - that's when a woman takes vitamins A through G, and still looks like H.