We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

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.

The Angel of Death is the invisible Angel of Life.

Changing circumstances always present great opportunities as well as new challenges. Once you recognise the relationship, you’ll understand the need for passion and persistence (KR, 1995)

To really meet the mystery, we must be uncertain.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

My kindness is my weakness but my weakness is my biggest strength.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

I just kind of have a comedic looking body, I guess. If anything I really have to exercise just to not look too fudgy, otherwise I would just keep going and going.