I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

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.

What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

Hey, you're going to hurt someone if you keep doing that!!!

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

Familiarity seems to breed contempt

There might be false starts and do-overs.You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.

Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

You embrace your body in your thought, and you should delineate upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness.

It's silly for me to raise expectations too much, but I think I'm right on the basic trend, which is shifting power to consumers.

Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.