What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

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.

In life, you have a choice to be better or bitter.

Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.

I discourage a cult of personality.

Be Somebody who makes Everybody feel like a Somebody.

The Chinese say that water is the most powerful element, because it is perfectly nonresistant. It can wear away a rock, and sweep all before it.

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation

Folks can believe what they like but eventually a man's got to declare if he's going to do what is right.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive.

I DO not count the hours I spend In wandering by the sea; The forest is my loyal friend, Like God it useth me.