The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.

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.

If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.

If I had a nickel for all the times I've been shushed in my life? Bam! Instant millionaire!

Our unity will always be a greater force with mixed ideals than if we demand that others change for us, to what we believe.

That's called business, let's shake hands and .... we just made one great deal.

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'

There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.

With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave.

The stigma of self-inflicted death is for some people a hateful blot that demands erasure at all costs.