If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

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.

Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.

And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.

I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.

The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

When someone thinks that to develop a holy life he must always be alone with God, he is no longer of any use to others.

You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections.

You can't make somebody understand something if their salary depends upon them not understanding it.