I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

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.

Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform

There has never been a miracle drug that could equal the Word of God. God’s medicine is the answer to every need.

The completion is always more difficult that the beginning

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.

The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.

I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

No owl is afraid of the night, no snake of the swamp and no traitor of the treason!

Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.

My mother was an actress. My father was an actor and a director. I am the son of filmmakers.