To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

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.

never trust anyone who says they do not see color. this means to them, you are invisible.

The last thing we expect others to do, its the last thing they do before we learn we cannot trust them.

There's a very wild side to me, but it's calming down.

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

There is no question about the fact that we had very serious disagreements with my German, French, and Russian colleagues over the Iraq war. But I never stopped talking.

I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting.

Love is a terrible weakness. It gives your enemies a perfect target, clouds your judgement, makes you reckless... and that's on a good day.

I never go online on my iPhone. Sometimes I'm tempted but I remind myself and the kids - it's a tool. Use it as a tool. You're not the tool. My iPhone, 85% of the time I'm writing down ideas.

What we really need, after all, is not to defend the Bible but to understand it.

It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.