Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference.

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.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

It’s tough, but if you want to survive, sometimes you have to do the seemingly impossible.

To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about.

True revolutions ... restore more than they destroy.

artists often lie behind on the field long after the art combine, the broad-bladed harvester of informed criticism, has mowed, bailed, and stored the crop.

Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.

The movies like "Star Wars," for example or "Lord Of The Rings," they work because it's a a mix of everything.

My mother always told me,”hide your face- people are looking at you”. I would reply,”It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; / I am your friend, but never your possession.

Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life