The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

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.

Mother said we had reached the Age of Reason and had to be good now. We must have because we wanted Willy Starr instead.

I would suggest respectfully to the president that he is not the sole decider. The decider is a shared and joint responsibility.

Honestly, I think I've stretched a talent which is so thin it's almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.

I can never quite trust anybody anymore.

I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.

Surrendering to jargon is a sign of journalism's dismal lack of self-confidence in the optimized age of content-management systems.

Patience is the key to any battle.

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there

A piece of paper makes you an officer, a radio makes you a commander.

By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.