The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.

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.

With no sense of smell, your memories dropped like pennies out of a ripped pocket, until the past was ashes and your parents were blanks: nothing more than the holes in Swiss cheese.

My business is to forgive others.

Your responsibility to be ready for the fight, never ends.

When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.

The critics. When they're right, they're right for the wrong reasons. And they're usually wrong.

Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love.

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.

Take time to be quiet.