There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.

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.

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

...the enduring human need to be remembered.

The only victory over love is flight.

If I don't have time for the writing, it's because I'm not making that time. It's really just a question of whether you want to or not, whether you feel you deserve to write or not.

Icelanders are grateful to meet foreigners who have heard of their country. And even more grateful to hear someone say it deserves better.

Death is the ultimate disappointment

There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.

Criticism will plant FEAR in the human heart, or resentment, but it will not build love or affection.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

Forget the known, don't be all the time immersed in your experiences.