I have not read far in the statutes of this Commonwealth. It is not profitable reading. They do not always say what is true; and they do not always mean what they say.

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.

Cosmopolitan discourse...provides one with a _public gaze_ with which one can relate oneself to others in a different way.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

He promised us that everything would be OK. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be OK. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.

There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place, a community space.

A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.

If you're going to make a law, make a law that actually works. It's extraordinarily difficult.

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

The Divine is the sea. All religions are rivers leading to the sea. Some rivers wind a great deal. Why not go to the sea directly?

You know when civilization began? With the invention of the mirror.

I practiced saxophone eight hours a day for the first two years I played.