The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

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.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

Judeo-Christian revelation is not the negative influence secularists proclaim it to be. Rather, it is the taproot of our civilization.

The walk downstairs to the breakfast table is excercise enough for any gentleman.

The boy I just kissed is talking to my father. The boy I want to kiss again is waiting for my mother to serve pancakes. I must fight the urge to freak.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.

There is something more important than the place being left. It's that swell of crushing emptiness that makes the insignificant seem anything but.

Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.