There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.

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.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy.

I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?

Lynx-eyes toward our equals, and moles to ourselves. [Fr., Lynx envers nos pareils, et taupes envers nous.]

Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.

Bloody Hammer is a screw capitalism song about college kids banging hammers on top of the roof.

Finding inner success is the best, easiest and infact the only way to achieve and enjoy everything else in life.