If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

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.

Systems and processes will always surpass motivation.

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.

By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

The metaphor is the story, not the character.

You'd be amazed at what I can do. Did you know I can swim?

Don't seek to be published, seek to be read.