It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

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.

Trust me, ’ he says with a touch of impatience.‘Stop asking me to do that, ’ I say, equally as impatiently.

Decide and communicate what you are for, what you support – not what you are against.

Why do you look like that, Duane?""Like what, Cletus?""Like your heart is diseased.

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.

Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century.

In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!

I love all of the government conspiracy stuff. I love all of the shady backroom White House dealings that are going on, and all of the politics involved. That kind of stuff is just fascinating to me.

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".

The best decision I ever made was to marry Dave.