Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

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.

Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity...

I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble.

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

All of life is a wager

Victory over others brings us satisfaction, but victory over ourselves brings us joy.

When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.

The American consumer, even today, the weight of the American consumer in the global economy is China plus India doubled. So, it's tough to replace that.

Try not to think too often, you'll only hurt yourself

Established in Being, perform action.

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.