Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

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.

Don't you just hate that, you meet a girl she seems pretty nice, you tell all your friends and before you know it she turns out to be a vampire, don't you just hate it when that happens?

A time comes in the life of a man when all you do is reflect on retrospective actions and desire better outcomes in the future

But in this world nothing is sure but death and taxes. [Fr., Mais dons ce monde, il n'y a rien d'assure que le mort et les impots.]

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true. And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.

The tiger is humbled by memories of prey.

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise?