To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

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.

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.

Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.

Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

I am very proud of the critical role West Virginians play in providing energy to our nation.

The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.