Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.

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.

This above all: to thine own self be true.

Success will teach you who your real friends are.

... a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

we are all half fool, half wise, there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame .

You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you fear.

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

Fear of my cruel impulses makes me kind.