In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.

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 way to make your dreams come true is to absolutely believe in them.

No credit--no debt. Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

He laughed and it sounded startled and a bit rusty, as if he didn't do that very often.

He was slumped over, blood trickling from the side of his mouth. I shook his furry hip, thinking, No! Even if you are half barnyard animal, you're my best friend and I don't want you to die!

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true.

Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed.

You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

My most basic credo is: I never said freedom was cheap. And it ain't. Never will be. It's been the highest priced and most precious commodity in my life.

I try to reach out to my idols.