I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.

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.

When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.

If you fail to take positive charge of your life, your negative experiences wouldn't hesitate to turn your mind into their playground.

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

What good shall I do this day?

Chaos happens. Let's make better use of it.

As history proves abundantly, mathematical achievement, whatever its intrinsic worth, is the most enduring of all.

I look forward to another good year next year. It would be nice to win, too.

Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.

Don’t let anyone steal your milk.

Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.