We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. [So why not suspect good rather than bad in events, people and life and thereby find it more?]

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.

My environment reflects the life I've led, the places I've visited and the people I've loved.

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

Those who scorn you taunt only themselves -- I knew this without reading one word; because in reading one is reminded of the truth man is given at birth -- by man I mean man and woman.

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.

It's so hard for people to even believe that there was a lesson to be learned at all, because they just think I'm wrong.

You can have talent and strength, but the most important is determination.

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

Every moment I choose to write about is one I have deemed important enough to dwell inside of and share with others. I am holding this moment up to the light and saying, "Wow, will you look at that?"

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.