Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

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.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

Everyone is ready to win, few are prepared.

The right timing is not always our timing.

It was a hard name having growing up as a child. Some kids would call me names like "Birbiglebug" and "Birbibliography" and "Faggot". Some were more clever than others.

I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.

Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. Theyre about telling stories.

We send young white boys to the Army. We're sending young black boys to the prisons.

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.