I do not know what right I have to so much happiness, but rather hold it in reserve till the time of my desert.

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.

Do you realize how good you have to be to strike out 2000 times?

I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.' 'But you built me dreams instead.

I do want to have a family at some point. I also want to adopt. I don't feel pressure to have kids because I know that there are so many out there.

To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of the public authority.

The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by 2 million.

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

These record companies are going to be going out of business pretty soon, because people are just going to be downloading what they want to hear.

Rich people collect land. Poor people collect bills.

You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.