What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

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 find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

But I did have two months off between Loser and the start of Prozac Nation. So, it was supposed to be Jason time, right? My time to enjoy myself away from movies.

When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

And the only people I fear are those who never have doubts... Save us all from arrogant men, and all the causes they're for.

May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.

Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.

It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to that.

Nothing is our except time.