For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself

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.

Too much fame, money or alcohol can make you stupid

The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order...With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

While this is good and it stores up knowledge and power, at the same time there's a problem with it because it means that a person becomes more fixed.

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

Well, there's no monkey on my back.

...language is not the frosting, it's the cake.