They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

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.

‎"We live in a world where those things that we never imagine could ever do something, did the best.

They can't expect anyone to actually pay for a shirt that says, 'I (picture of an elephant) the San Diego Zoo.' What does that even mean?

At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.

Can anyone survive without faith, however its labeled? No matter how you live, it seems, you need faith to get by, to get ahead.

An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.

I used to be very revolutionary, but now I think that nothing can be gained by brute force. People must be drawn to good by goodness.

I have realized that nothing else matters besides this: Am I doing everything God has put me on this earth to do?

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

Things can change in an instant, so why not live truthfully?

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.