Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

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.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.