Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you alone.

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.

But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.

In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.

Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories

It’s funny how life can change so much but still nothing changes at all. Or maybe it’s that life changes, but you as a person don’t or maybe we adjust, but don’t actually change.

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.

Parents must refuse to cooperate with any psychological evaluation of their children in school.

Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.