I do not wish, it happens, to be associated with Massachusetts, either in holding slaves or in conquering Mexico. I am a little better than herself in these respects.

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.

The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.

​You are only limited by your imagination.

The will of this boy thief flows in golden streams. It is the thread with which I weave, the colors with which I paint, the element with which I create.

Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence....

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

Don't believe everything you hear today

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Whatever you say about Fergus McCann, if this [Celtic Park] is the legacy, then I am absolutely delighted with it.

Respecting the sovereignty means preventing coups, unconstitutional actions and illegitimate overthrowing of the legitimate government. All these things should be totally prevented.