Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

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.

You are born to be wild but end up being named, tamed and chained.

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.

In the movies, the writer is just the servant, the employee.

Readers will share in the environs of the author and her characters, be taken into the hardship of a pitiless place and emerge on the other side — wiser, warier and weathered like the landscape.

Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.

No study is possible on the battlefield.

l photograph what l do not wish to paint and l paint that which l cannot photograph.

People read so much into what I do. It's fascinating to me because some of it's probably there, but I haven't thought of it.

Once upon a time the plural of 'wizard' was 'war'.