There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ... A man sees only what concerns him.

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.

Poverty fled, she who gives birth to virile men.

I fear that moments of quietude are on the endangered list

I'm not good at secrets, so don't tell me any.

Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

I have to remember that for the most part people will see me for what I do, not what I say I do.

Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.

Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.

Since I don't have access to the White House pastry chef anymore, it's done wonders for my figure.

Enjoy life, it has an expiration date