Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

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 difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.

In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

All we want is to be treated like human beings, and not to be patronized, or experimented on like guinea pigs.