Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

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.

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

You will fall to ruin because you believe that exceptions to the rule make new rules.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

God is looking for men in whose hands His glory is safe.

I believe at the end of my career I'll be retired into the recurring character hall of fame.

For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than fiction writing.

Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

But in the hero ne'er forget the man.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.