You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.

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.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved

Jazz is democracy in music.

He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.

I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.

Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs.

Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.

Niagara Falls is very nice. I'm very glad I saw it, because from now on if I am asked whether I have seen Niagara Falls I can say yes, and be telling the truth for once.

...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

Always trust your instinct.