There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.

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.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

Israel does not care about the international public opinion.

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

Families are where children live. Almost everything they experience is in the context of family life.

I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series.

Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.