There is one consolation in being sick and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

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.

They're so cold, these scholars!May lightning strike their foodso that their mouths learn howto eat fire!

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.

There is only one decisive victory: the last.

I am not the kind of girl that gets in trouble.

The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

Our goal is self-transcendence

And you go into a supermarket and every tabloid is like, 'Pregnant and Alone!' Stuck in the 1950s ideal of how a woman should live her life. This brings out the fiery feminist in me.