The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

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.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

A cease-fire between human beings depends upon a cease-fire with God.

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe with one trifling exception is composed of others.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

Just like Brad Pitt and what's her name!

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation.

Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first.

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

Few of us will reach our potential without the nurturing of both the mother who bore us and the mothers who bear with us.