By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

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.

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

I used to believe in 'em [lines]. I don't anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to make us believe they there. But they ain't." - Aibileen

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

Everybody wants to be famous. You have to be ready to deal with consequences.

Graveyards remind us of the vanity of all human endeavour.

When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole.

Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.

A fever is an expression of inner rage.

Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.