The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.

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.

It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others.

And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.

Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

You don't need a reason to be nice to someone.

I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

I love cartoons. So when they came to me to make Ice Age and this sequel, I was so happy.

When I miss you, sometimes I listen to music or look at pictures of you, not to remind me of you but to make me feel as if I'm with you. It makes me forget the distance and capture you.

Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.

In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write.