Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless 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.

Your anger is the fire which can burn the whole world, but forgiveness is the water which can extinguish the fire and bloom the flowers of peace and love.

Eyes aren't good liars.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

...man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.

Are you a polititcian or does lyin' just run in your family?

I know I can cook, but the place where I cook... it's a mess! I'm very disorganized.

Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College.

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.