. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

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.

It's a finger snapping kind of day.

I want to be an advocate for the people who don't have time to read the newspaper... or the money to make a political contribution.

Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

Each man has an aptitude born with him. Do your work.

So, are you... intrigued ... by Stanhope?" "Intrigued by him?" "Indeed. Do you find him ..." he paused. "Intriguing?" she teased. He sent her an exasperated look.