Look for opportunities to help someone else, but don't give expecting something in return. Give knowing that if we give we receive.

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.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

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.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

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.

Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.

The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!

Is Billy Idol just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way?

Having a messy coat closet should not be a big deal in a full life, and yet there's something about getting control of that coat closet that's surprisingly satisfying.

He was having an illicit affair... with his own mate.

My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

It was like I was inside a fishbowl in the middle of a typhoon, and everyone else was on the outside cluelessly enjoying lovely weather.

By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid.

At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.