Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

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.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge we must produce educated people.

After 12 years in the minor leagues, I don't try out. Besides, uh, I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart.

We must trust God with what we can't control.

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.

First you have to learn to do something, then you can go out and do it.

Simple diet is best: for many dishes bring many diseases, and rich sauces are worse than even heaping several meats upon each other.

I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around.

The mind is the pilot. We think of things before the body does them.