Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

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.

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

I am against the death penalty.

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

Both of our daughters, Debbie and Bonnie, are also cancer survivors.

I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.

I'm such a hater, and will hate on anything.

Just make music; don't talk about politics.

If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.

There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two