The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

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.

To love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, and our neighbor as ourself.

Love may be harder to find in some people, but when they do love you know it must be something marvelous.

Give me a life time by the fire, with a book in my hand, nothing more and I will tell you a great story.

Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.

Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.

There is a definite moment when a work congeals and crystallizes. Once I am finished with a painting, I am happy to send it off into the world so I can get to work on the next one.

The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic.

I believe you have to live the songs.