Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.

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.

Just as we leave the effects of our work behind in results, we leave the effects of our interactions with people in their hearts, minds, and souls.

Habit is habit and not to be thrown out of the window by any man but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.

Someday our souls will be one and our union will be forever. I know that everything I give you comes back to me. So I give you my life , hoping that you will come back to me.

I believe there are two types of decision-makers - those who lead with their gut and those who make lists of pros and cons, and fully anticipate the consequences.