How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

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.

Great goals always come from inspiration.

She could not separate success from peace of mind. The two must go together.

In God's strength I could battle the giants. Alone, I was just a grasshopper.S

Why do people always think they will be happier in the future, rather than embracing the thought for that hour, that day?

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

Life is like a dice game; one roll could land you in jail, or cuttin' cake, blowin' kisses in the rice game.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

What do the contours of your body mean, laid out like the lines on a hand, so that I no longer see them except as fate?

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.