Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.

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 is easy to hate but divine to love.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us.

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best.

All the wrong people are against it, so it must be right.

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

But I don't want to do no big tours or go out on the road.

There is a world of difference between being friendly to someone because they're useful to you and being someone's friend.

More grounded, more humble, more selfless makes us more opportunistic.

Rose,” he said, forcibly trying to keep a serious tone, “I can think of many words to describe you, sexy and hot being at the top of the list. You know what’s not on the list? Sane.