“Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.”

It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It’s the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction.

I am not a yogi yet, but I aspire to have more balance in my life.

There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

As kids, we didn’t complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could.

And thus I aspire to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named so that I would not build on another man’s foundation.

It’s always a dream to be on the cover, it’s one of the things an athlete always aspires to do, to be on the cover of a videogame, but I never thought I would get to do it this quick.

I want to show people who I really am, especially aspiring basketball players who want to be at this level. That’s what I’m about.

I don’t think that every child in America is going to necessarily aspire to, you know, a four-year degree from a liberal arts college or a certain kind of life. I think that people should learn to be excellent in the thing that they choose to do.