I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

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 preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

I am not smart, I pay attention.I am not considerate, I listen.I am not patient, I make time. I’m not lucky, I work hard.

It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.

What's good about growth? Why is it intrinsically good?

I'm so hungry I could eat you! -Cloudpaw

I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to that stuff. "Thee and thous" - the guy sounds like a faggot.

In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh at you. Don't try to win.

John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. I would respectfully disagree with that.

I wouldn't include a piece in my collection that I wouldn't wear personally.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.