Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He'll be as dumb as if his lips were stone.

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.

The soul is healed by being with children.

If we shrug our shoulders at the avoidable suffering of the weak and the poor, of those who are getting exploited and ripped off, we are not the left.

If you really want things to change, you can make them change no matter where you are.

Anything is bearable as long as you can make a story out of it...

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

I count on the kindness of strangers.

My pain is constant and sharp...this confession has meant nothing

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

Needing someone doesn't make you weak, it makes you feel. And feeling is how you know you're alive.