The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

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.

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life.

To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or musi

Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow.

He smiled at me, and that smile -- he just gets in. His smile did it every time.

Even in the middle of a noisy mass of students, one girl’s laugh grabbed my attention.

You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face the friends the health and the children you have earned.

Am I nervous? Yeah. Am I scared? Sure. But I do this because I love it.

There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.

All the wars of the world, all the Caesars, have not the staying power of a lily in a cottage garden.

The soul is timeless and nonlocal.