I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

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.

(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From "Butterfly on F street

It is ironic that the only thing separating 'friend' from 'fiend' - is a single letter.

A good example is the best sermon.

Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.

I think the best comedies came out during the Depression. Personally.