Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.

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.

Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

Dogs may be divided into two classes: those who are merely afraid of cattle and those who can't abide them.

When you learn how much bycatch comes from shrimp [and how destructive it is] - I'm not going to eat shrimp anymore.

There is a very fine line between listening and stalking.

The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.

The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good.