The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

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.

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

The life-tree of practice is single-minded application.

And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.

It's harder to stay strong than it is to give up. Giving up doesn't get you anywhere.. Only makes you weak.

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

We have a saying in Germany. It is better to have loved and lost than to engage in a land war with Russia in the winter.

You have to wake up every day ready to start again.

I try to be a guide for people, to make their darkness bright and to make the pathway light, and never to condemn or control or criticize.

It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.

If you're remarkable it's likely that some people won't like you.