The perception of beauty is a moral test.

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.

Imagination is manifest of thoughts by divine force.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

Adventure begins with a thought, decision and action.

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

They had Jan Venegoor of...whatever you call him.

I stayed sober for this?

One thing I know that's really cool - it seems to me that Blake Schwarzenbach [Jets to Brazil frontman; ex-Jawbreaker] is someone who's made music that's people continue to take really personally.

I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.

Every book is a kind of experiment in doing something that feels impossible.

All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.