Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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.

It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.

If you believe that some opinions are in fact better than others, then you, too, are an elitist of sorts.

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

You do not see fairies through the eyes, you see them through the heart and that took me a long time to learn because I was always trying to see them through my eyes.

There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.

Women are not just there to be admired, they are there to be enjoyed.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there.

Relationships are kind of like riding a bull. You hang on for dear life and sometimes you get a little buck here and there ... but you get back on.

However formidable a military power you may be, you cannot impose upon a people anything against their will.