A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.

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.

A man though carrying God may be of no worth to himself, to his family, to his nation and to the people around him.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in. We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.

On the last day, God will not acquit us because our good works were good enough, but he will look for evidence that our good confession was not phony. It’s in this sense that we must be holy.

It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

To be a classic, a novel should be original.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.