None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

My Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only a sense of existence.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

We dream of having a clean house — but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning?

Well done is better than well said.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

A leader is a dealer in hope.