What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

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.

You will be loved as much as you expect.

But more importantly in my book of life, it's what you can't buy with money that is often more important than what you can buy.

In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference.

I work with Garry no matter what. What I wanted to keep going was the streak.

When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.

In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.

I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

I've always said that I myself am not the best audience for my own work, because I'm just not that receptive to comedy.