One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

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.

Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship with words.

I was so incredibly nostalgic for a life I knew I'd never, ever have again.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

Emerald slopes became so tall they touched the clouds, and showers painted diamond waterfalls that sluiced down cliff sides.

Work is the only thing I do to escape the corruption of praise.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They're dead.

When I was in the studio with Madonna, we would work 12-hour days. If you want to work with the best, then that's what you have to do.

A monarch must sometimes rule even himself: he who wants everything must risk very little.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.