The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.

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.

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

Atheism Is Rare ?! so is intelligence

It’s too dangerous…I would never be able to forgive myself if something happened to him. I wouldn’t be able to bare it. Forgiveness would be out of the question

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

So lonely I make friends with the ravens that prey on lambs.

Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

Why should I tolerate a perfect stranger at the bedside of my mind?