The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

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.

My heart swells with emotion each time I recall the sweetness of my youth!

Life has trained many of us to think of love as temporary and conditional.

People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

Almost every Marine I've met says I portray a Marine dead-on, which is really, really flattering.

I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I would never do anything like that.

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.

Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the something you do daily.

The very genetic determinism I posited in World's End as a way of shaking off my inherited demons is being proven in fact as we map out the human genome.