Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

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.

Timelessness is realizing that everything that has ever or will ever happen already exists simultaneously in another reality or dimension.

A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride.

So let’s raise our glass to the accident season, To the river beneath us where we sink our souls, To the bruises and secrets, to the ghosts in the ceiling, One more drink for the watery road.

When bad strikes, most likely you will not get an answer when you ask, “Why?” Your strength must come from having faith that someday the answer will come and then it will all make sense.

The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young would-be scientist.

I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.

There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.

- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.