A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

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.

If mediocrity is your benchmark, you always sit on the bench!

Biking and love do not make sense without your personal experience

When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.

Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.

And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.

The joys of theory are the sweetest intellectual pleasures of life

It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

I know it sounds cliche, but you have to believe in yourself because there's going to be moments that no one else does.

It's been a good hockey life for me anyway.