I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.

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.

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves.

I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization. (1804)

To know a very different person from ourselves is a great luck for us!

Life runs on with bag pack of problems tackle them swiftly.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean.

Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.

Everything America should be, Muhammad Ali is.

don't mean to sound weird but I get so immersed in the source material when I'm working on a movie that I kind of lose the line between what I thought of and what was in the book.