I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.

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.

All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled

Be a Strong Leader, Even If You Follow a Weak Leader

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

All babies look like Winston Churchill.

I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.

Celebrate all the things you don't like about yourself. love yourself.

Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.