I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

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.

She'd been taking care of others for so long that she scarcely recognized herself when she looked in the mirror.

No matter how many women I’ve kissed over the years, your lips are the ones that still haunt me.

You can change only what people know, not what they do.

It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.

I got a Walkman, I had the 'Footloose' soundtrack and I danced to it constantly.

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.

The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death.

I don't go out that much anymore, unfortunately. I used to enjoy it, but I'm just so busy. Like last night, everybody else went out, and I just went straight home and went to bed.

I can't control what people think. They know who I am.