What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?

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.

We don’t have to like each other. We just need to respect each other.

We love each other. You love me, you do.” His eyes beseech me to believe it, to remember it, to feel it.

I'm a little more of a lead instrument in the Meatbats.

To be honest, I don't enjoy watching movies much when I'm working. They tend to fall apart on me a bit.

If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.

Unless we announce disasters no one will listen.

No man can force the harp of his own individuality into the people's heart; but every man may play upon the chords of the people's heart, who draws his inspiration from the people's instinct.

I love energy and people; gosh I love people even when they got on my nerves.

I should mention that I am a member of the board of directors of Dimensional Fund Advisors.