Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!

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.

Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it

You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.

I’m pretty sure I’m the only author who intends to take the longest possible route to a destination that will always be over the next hill.

I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]

Wouldn't it be nice if our lives were like VCRs , and we could 'fast forward' through the crummy times?

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

Those who know what's best for us must rise and save us from ourselves.

Laziness is the road to progress, but only when it is allied to intelligent thought and high ambition.