A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

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.

The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.

Taking action is the best source of inspiration.

No gains without pains.

People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.

In a political context of the utmost significance, ["freedom from fear"] recognizes a human right which, in a broad sense, may be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

Promises were a lot like impressions. The second one didn't count for much.

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision