Keep up the fires of thought, and all will go well.

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.

I hate housework! You make the beds you do the dishes - and six months later you have to start all over again.

The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

You have got to love yourself first. You have got to be ok on your own before you can be ok with somebody else. You have got to value yourself and know that you are worth everything.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

You can only do the best you can in the minute that you're doing it.

Even a single hair casts its shadow.

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.