We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

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.

Within our emotions lie answers, truths and instructions.

Transported to a different culture, thought often loses its subtlety and can even rampage like a wild beast.

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

I smoke to fill the potholes in my soul

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)

the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!

A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.