One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

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.

Revenge is not sweet

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.

Can I really take God at his word?

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

Time to make herself scarce because, hell, she didn’t want to pass that thunderhead on her way out.

I think if you're able to do over the course of your career 20, 30, 50 very wonderful rich characters, you'd rather have that than an Oscar.

People in Washington need to put their feet in the shoes of working Americans.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.

One day I decided to try to have a complete day without tea. I was quite shaken. I was quite disturbed.