How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.

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.

A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer.

And almost instantly, Daddy made everything seem just fine. Even when it wasn't.

The subject for a lot of non-fiction is very emotional, but if you read it, it's the most boring, dry stuff. I wanted 'Torn Apart' to be extremely accessible and readable.

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day.

Growing up with my dad being a musician, it seemed like a male centric world to me. I just didn't know many girls playing guitar.

The young are always in extremes.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

I think it's important we continue to find new ways for start-up businesses to get access to funding, mentorship and business advice.

To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.