Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

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.

Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, "Do I know you?

true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles. Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

Today the theory of evolution is about as much open to doubt as the theory that the earth goes round the sun.

Let us not foist this humbug on the world.