Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.

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.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

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.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

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.

Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

I don't think a lot of people are able to relate to genuine patriotism, a genuinely good feeling about our country and its meaning to the rest of the world.

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

People behave badly and people are in prison and people are on death row, and there are no excuses for everybody's behavior, but most people are coming from abuse.

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

Every child a wanted child; every mother a willing mother.

Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.

All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.

I'm not going for the sixteenth chapel.

It was a dream world, a kind of Alice in Wonderland, with its kings and queens, princes and princesses, and our millions of loyal subjects. But it wasn't real, and it couldn't last.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.