I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

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.

You can't develop the world but you can develop your world because the world will one day fall but your world will always walk with you where ever you go.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right

I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.

To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.

But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.

The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.

I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

All roads lead to the earth; the abyss leads to God. Jump!

You are a citizen, and citizenship carries responsibilities.

In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.