So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.

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.

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.

Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my own cards. —Alton Richard

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

Working because you want to is the best sort of play.

The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.