Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.

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.

There should not be any excuse. If we don’t like our heritages, we've the power to change them for good. Let’s go beyond using lame excuses...

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

The desire of privilege and the taste of equality are the dominant and contradictory passions of the French of all times.

Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.

I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my heart easy to spare?

I think we'd be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that's going to last for ever and ever and ever

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

I've reached my goal with snowboarding.

Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.