If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

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.

There is never enough time for fun.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

Plants and factories are already starting to move back into the United States, and big league Ford, General Motors, so many of them.

Bill, don’t look at me — I’m ’ideous.

We're in this together, and if we united and we inter-culturally cooperated, then that might be the key to humanity's survival.

She said she wasn't afraid of Satan, in fact, she thought he was a joke. She said she'd tear his tail off and run her fist down his throat.

Historical novels, in particular, allow us to relive the past without the neatness of history, and with all the complexity of the present.

If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it’s an error not an end.

I'm the same boy I used to be.