In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

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.

You can change your life with a simple shift of attention. But to make that simple shift, you have to find your heart. It's the only way. Accept yourself, then transcend yourself.

New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.

She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.

…we can not love or think except in fragments of time each of which goes along its own trajectory and immediately disappears.

It's why I laugh so much. If my face is going to stick, I'm going to like looking at it.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

You don't step on stage to eat; you go there to be eaten.

We are being ruined by the best efforts of people who are doing the wrong thing.

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.