To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

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.

If the purpose of love is getting into bed

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.

The world is full of horrible things that will eventually get you and everything you care about. Laughter is a universal way to lift your head up and say: 'Not today, you bastards.'

Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.

It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.

Why is it I feel a new nostalgia for the era of the guillotine?

Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.