If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

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.

The truth doesn't mind being told every once in a while.

It is possible, ” said Miss Marling stiffly, “that Frederick and not Mary will have the ordering of thejourney.”Vidal chuckled. “Not if I know my Mary, ” he replied

We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard.

I actually enjoy comedy; it's a lot of fun.

Nothing would more effectively further the development of education than for all flogging pedagogues to learn to educate with the head instead of with the hand.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.

I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.

I had never made any plans beyond basketball.