As long as there is satire, the poet is, as it were, particeps criminis.

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.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

Elvis saved my life when I was 13 or 14. He saved all our lives.

I never expected to be even busier at 81, and doing more of what I love, than when I was 30.

Christmas is believing that the salvation of the world is God's work, and not mine.

The future is uncertain... but this uncertainty is at the very heart of human creativity.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it's not.