I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.

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.

Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.

I promised to always bring up a glass of water to her before we go to bed, and she promised to never let me dress myself.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Today there are no more irreconcilable enmities, because there are no more disinterested emotions: that's a good thing born from a bad thing.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

You are young. So you know everything. You leap into the boat and begin rowing. But, listen to me. Without fanfare, without embarrassment, without doubt,I talk directly to your soul. Listen to me.

Shift your awareness.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.