The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

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.

There were so many viciously sarcastic ways to respond, Jaden’s brain was temporarily paralyzed due to witty comeback overload.

- Why you?- (...) I’m the best.- Modest of you.- I am the best. Modesty has nothing to say about it.

Criticism is something you can easily avoid — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing.

Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

It takes people being alone in front of the computer at three in the morning to write opinions about movies, apparently.

Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

That's always been the case in America; there's been a big spectrum in how much people are interested in American politics.