I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

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.

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I’d done to myself.

I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.

What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it.

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

I'm behind you." I spun to see Derek. "I can't win," he said. "You're as skittish as a kitten.

Skills come with age, but wisdom, I doubt it very, very much.

By heart we believe and by mouth confess the one Church, not of heretics but the Holy Roman, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which we believe that no one is saved.

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.