The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

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.

The thoughts you think every day determines the life you lead tomorrow

Would you buy potato chips that listed potato by-product or potato digest as an ingredient

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

I don't put labels on myself.

There's so much to explore! And personally, I don't know. It's such a crapshoot.

There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.

This election result has increased people's faith in democracy.