Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

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 learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

The Word God wastes nothing and He heals two broken hearts with one story - the reader and the writer.

This is teamwork; this is what it's all about.

This is not a rock opera. This is not Tommy. I can write songs that emote, and that's it.

I don't consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.