Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

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.

What have I done to her?" Gabriel muttered to himself as he crossed the room to crank open a window. Cool air washed over his skin. "What the devil did she do to me?

For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.

[Snobbishness] is the desire for what divides men and the inability to value what unites them.

You gotta just laugh at yourself and let it go and not take things too seriously because life is too short.

The country can't get well if the people are sick. And the people are sick.

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

People used to laugh that academics would study Disney movies. There's nothing more important for academics to study, because they shape the minds of our children possibly more than any single thing.

In life there are worse things (then being fired by the Miami Marlins) and I have experienced them. I have lived through bad moments and I will get through this with support.

We all have won the lottery of life. How do we discharge that responsibility?