Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

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.

If you want to know how to swim, you take lessons. If you want to walk on water, lessons won´t help you, just faith.

The Hubbermanns had two of their own (children), but they were older and had moved out...Soon they would be both in the war. One would be making bullets. The other would be shooting them.

Greatness in the last analysis is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

Second place is just the first place loser.

What are we doing that for in the 21st century? Why on earth would we teach kids that girls are less important than boys? It just made no sense to me.

Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

I often think we're most happy when we forget the time.

Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.

You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.