No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

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.

Never let the clouds of your negative past blindfold you from the beauty of the present.

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

If I didn't exist, I would have invented myself.

Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did.

The primary place where most people lose energy is in their relationships with others. That means you lose your energy in your interactions with the people you know best.

Adulthood brings with it a pernicious illusion of control.

I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.

Said to Mairin; "There's little decency to good loving" Maddie said. "If 'tis decent, it isn't much fun"!

I hold those wise who know how to be happy.

Titles or awards are not the mark of your success. They are the beginning of a life-long sadhana.