This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

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 hope so, ” grumbled Ian. “I’m going to look for another one of ‘em winged dogs for Mabel.

... you might have been born to work the land. But according to the fate you’ve made for yourself, you were meant to save it.

There's no connection between consumption of art and moral stamina at all.

If I actually believed that the progress of human understanding depended on our crop of contemporary novelists, I would shoot myself.

Avery Morgansten? This is becoming a habit.

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

If you pay peanuts, you wind up hiring monkeys.

And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.