Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

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 every living thing there is the desire for love.

You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life, ' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.

One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman.

If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

I say things that contradict each other, that are in real tension with each other, that compose me, that make me live, and that will make me die.

Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.

People are more interested in ideas than dress.

And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.