We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

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.

Sometimes you just need to raise your voice. And sometimes a little anger is necessary, to be honest.

The one who is happy can never get too early out of bed.

[last words] What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.

When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.

I know politicians - I know politicians, believe it or not, better than you [Ted Cruz] do. And it's not good.

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what is possible.

Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I'm not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.