Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.

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.

Positive expectations create a positive life.

The Gottschalk was a fine weapon."You, " I said to it, "are on probation. You'd better impress me."Great. Now I was talking to guns.

I had heard of offices feeling like prisons, but in this case our prison felt, rather anticlimactically, like an office.

Look, how they scold me for all my loving and tippling, now that the silvery edges shine forth from my brow!

There's more impact if you burn somebody with your eyes, look straight into him and let him know with a look.

When you are a rich man you are proud to own a Rolls Royce and when you are a poor man you are proud to own a Renault.

No part of Manhattan these days really has the same vibe I get from a Ramones song or a Velvet Underground song.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

People are always talking on their phones, or looking at their phones, because they don't want to be alone with their thoughts.

We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise.