Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

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.

Children believe they are immortal, death is an empty word like the name of a country they’ve never been to on a time-faded map. I wasn’t a child anymore.

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

You've already been at the bottom. Why don't you go for the top?

If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?

I think love resides in all of the songs, even when they are overtly sexual.

What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

When you are completely satisfied with what you have made, you're pretty much done as a director. So when that happens, that'll sort of be the end.