Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

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.

When you help someone to become a success, you unknowingly become a success.

Patience is the inclination to control the racing mind, which wants to jump ahead.

I've belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don't know why.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.

For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.

I think purple is the only color that suits me most.

I love those stretches where I've just been a writer - when I haven't been doing Internet start-ups - where I pretty much eliminate meetings from my life.

Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.