What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

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 can't raise happy kids in a happy family if you aren't happy and don't know who you are. You can't pin your life on someone else's happiness.

EWI: Emailing While Intoxicated

Opinions are many, but there is only one truth. Don’t get lost in opinions.

Who realizes what? That is realization.

I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would be great to sit in a room with him...and try to make peace.

I don't think I've made a mistake. I think I have behaved in ways that I am proud of; I think I've behaved in ways I'm not.

Only about half of all commercials actually work.

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.

The Waking Dark is about what happens when something awakens a towns darkest impulses and unleashes them on the world.

No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.