What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

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.

I know that humans are fond of seeing their kind rendered in other media.

I do think about marriage, but it's not the end-all goal.

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.

You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.

A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?

God created man on purpose, and for a purpose.