Nations are possessed with an insane ambition to perpetuate the memory of themselves by the amount of hammered stone they leave. What if equal pains were taken to smooth and polish their manners?

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.

Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel.

Good literature boils down to two things: How interesting is the story you are telling, and how interesting is your telling.

Everything that seemingly happens externally is occurring in order to trigger something within us, to expand us and take us back to who we truly are.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

There are many vices which are not believed because of their magnitude.

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

I just want to be known as a very normal person and be treated as that and be able to walk down the street like anyone else.

Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot.

If you create a vision for yourself, and stick with it, you can make amazing things happen in your life.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.