If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

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.

California is a fine place to live, if you happen to be an orange.

Enthusiasm is the elixir of life.

Better to lose with the right team than to win with the wrong team.

One bliss for which there is no match is when you itch to up and scratch.

We think about time as something not to waste, not as something to invest.

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

I think the thing I'm most excited about is the fact that I was able to, for the most part, change pitchers' mindsets about what kind of hitter I am.

You puff the poets of other days, The living you deplore. Spare me the accolade: your praise Is not worth dying for.

If life is worth living then it's worth recording.

Snakes have no arms. That's why they don't wear vests.