The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

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.

God is love. Love is of God. Whoever loves is of God.

Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history.

Wisdom cometh by suffering.

One of my best friends is named David Leventhal, and it has always been a constant source of amusement to see how the similarity and differences play out in our lives.

It's not easy to run a marathon, I know it will be painful but when I start it, I know I'm going to finish it

Structure is, for me, the most fun challenge about writing novels.

The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.

You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.

The most detestable race of enemies are flatterers.