There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

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.

From the depths of your well, tap your will.

There'll be differences of opinion in just about every intelligence analysis that you make.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security.

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

I'm a rather crude cook.

I can't relax here. These people have no pubic hair anywhere. We have pubic hair on the ceiling.

Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

I may be controversial, but my allegiance is to people outside the Beltway.