It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.

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.

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

Dance when the moon sings, and don't cry about troubles that haven't yet come. (Moon Called)

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

You're the reason why I'll move to the city; you're why I'll need to leave.

Real integrity means an answer. It doesn't just mean - it doesn't mean riding the anger. And this is very difficult to do.