In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.

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 flag of our Union forever!

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

I felt like the blonde in every horror movie who hears a noise in the basement and goes to investigate alone. Sometimes you smell the stupid all around you, but you step in it anyway.

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

I really think I'm at the top of my game right now, and I have the tools that I've learned over the years, so I feel really good about what I'm doing onstage now.

Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.

May God defend me from my friends: I can defend myself from my enemies.