The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.

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.

Live from abundance

Something you killed didn't stay dead? Wow. That must have really put some termites in your coffin.

I very strongly disagreed with President Clinton on the deregulation of Wall Street. I opposed that strenuously.

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

Fashion is an expression of what you're feeling.

The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme.

The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.