As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

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 only battle to win is the battle within, that place where we realize that we deserve to have and create all that we want in our lives.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

What time is it? It is by every star a different time, and each most falsely true.

There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it.

Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.

Once again, I think there is little art being done that really owns up to such intense possibilities.

I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.

Red tape will often get in your way. It's one of the reasons I often carry scissors!

Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.