Renew thyself completely each day.

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.

To have mercy and truth requires love, good understanding and respect.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.

When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

There is no greater thrill than to sing with a beautiful orchestra.

Courage starts when the fun stops

The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have achieved. On the contrary, they head in this direction.

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.