It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.

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.

To see the universe clearly, you need not only a clear sky but also a clear mind!

Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

Do you have to pay to be Jewish? Do you need a licence?

Haphazard actions don’t bring results!

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.

A trust-in the sense of a valuable asset placed in the care of someone to whom it does not ultimately belong-captures, more or less, my understanding of what it is to have a child.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.