The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

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.

Soon, the two of them would leave this spot. . . walk into the house and into a whole changed world. . .

What will you do today so tomorrow becomes the legacy you wanted to leave?

Fame and glory belong to those who are the first to achieve things, not those who only think about it or do it after it's been done.

I am already inherently full and complete as I am. Man doesn't need woman and woman doesn't need man in order to experience his or her inherent fullness.

This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.

We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to.

If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.

Chess is a very logical game and it is the man who can reason most logically and profoundly in it that ought to win.

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.