How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

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.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.

New occasions teach new duties.

Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.

A good trader loves an active market, you don't make money when the market is static.

No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.

As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

Evil is easy to fight. Lack of wisdom...that is very hard indeed.

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?