Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?

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.

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

Basically, there is simply nothing to worry about, because you yourself are the eternal energy of the universe.

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.

I wasn't under the impersonation you meant me.

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.

The institutional leader is primarily an expert in the promotion and protection of values.

Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.