Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.

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.

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later.

People just want good stories.

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

Our own country seemed more polarized than it's ever been and since the two terrorist attacks of 9/11, religion was in greater disrepute than at any other time in my lifetime.

A strong body is a good asset. A strong mind is a very good asset.

I'm not someone who is glamorous all the time.

I'm more of a perfectionist. I need to be sure everything is exactly where I would want it.