A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."

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.

Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.

Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

5. You feel he has a lot of admirable qualities.

From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.

One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.

The law is rough. I'm not talking about new laws, the existing law is very rough.

I am an inventor of music.

The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

Getting the big things right that make all the money, that's long cycle, really executing in a way that allows you to do it, that's short cycle.