Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

All girls like guys who are tough. Obviously, riding a motorcycle - I don't want to say that there's a bad boy quality - but there's definitely a tough and macho thing about a guy who rides a motorcycles and that element of danger. That's really sexy.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Life is not about "OR" - it is about "AND". It is magical and messy. It is heartwarming and heartbreaking. It is delight and disappointment. Grace and grief. Exquisite and excruciating, often at the exact same time.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.