If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

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.

A library is a hospital for the mind.

You can't see the light without darkness, take a look at the dark side of another point of view, you will find the meaning of darkness are essentially

Even water carves monuments of stone, so do our thoughts shape our character.

I wanted to throw myself into an experience that was too big for me and learn in a way that cost me something

Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!

Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

I feel like pop stars can't be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun out of it for us, because we just want to have fun with art.

Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

If nobody loved, the sun would go out.