A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

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.

With grace, we can obey God’s commands.

...I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat...

Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

I walk into this room All eyes on me now But I do not know the people inside Look straight through me these eyes Seeking more wisdom Than I have to give away

Analogy pervades all our thinking, our everyday speech and our trivial conclusions as well as artistic ways of expression and the highest scientific achievements.

You can’t be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.

America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

My smile is my way of saying: "You can destroy my body, but not my soul.

When I say something about anything, there's really not much left to be said. Which is why I don't tell you everything I think about everything.

Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human