Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.

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.

You must always be proactive

Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.

In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs

Building is a sweet impoverishing.

We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.

I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.

It is inappropriate (to allow parents) to design the curriculum and to run the school.

Parenting is the greatest of hum-a-few-bars-and-I'll-fake-it skills.

You've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've got nothing.

I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.