What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

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.

Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing.

Morality is good when we use it to live our lives but not to hurt anyone.

The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. There's a kind of glory to them when they're all lit up that exceeds anything all the money in the world could buy.

Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks.

Now is now. Here is my treasure.

The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

Avoid foods you see advertised on television.

When we come to the sundown road, we need all the love we have managed to take with us from the summit of the hill.

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.