It is not enought to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

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.

... Once a penguin finds its perfect other penguin, they stay together pretty much forever.

Fear is a driving force for most of the things that I do. I don't know if that's healthy.

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

And I been waitin' all my life And I been havin' big dreams times twice

I'm kind of A.D.D., and so my mind wanders a lot.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.

Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.

The hero is strangely akin to those who die young.

China should bury head to work diligently for 10 years and then raise head to face Japan.