Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

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.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

I've woken up from dreams and the whole song is there. I'm listening to it in my dreams. I consciously have to wake myself up and get a tape recorder because I hear it like a record.

Photography is 90% sheer, brutal drudgery! The other 10% is inspiration!!

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them.

To our strongest impulse, to the tyrant in us, not only our reason but also our conscience yields.

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.

We have got to be a hell of a lot more aggressive.

Gifts have ribbons, not strings.