The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

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.

You plan every step of your life, but sometimes you have to let life happen. Change is always unsettling, sometimes scary, but you have to let go. Take a risk. Risk can be fun.

Attend to your own fate.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.

There is something about seeing myself improve that motivates and excites me.

Your life has little purpose if you are separate from your own knowledge within.

Where there is no conflict, there is no fault.

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.

The United Nations ... [is] a place for prostitution under the feet of Americans.