Henry David Thoreau

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."

"Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."

"A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend."

"It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always."

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

"Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams."

"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."

"Dreams are the touchstones of our characters."

"This world is but a canvas to our imagination."

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."

"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."

"True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance."

"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend."

"Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day."

"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."

"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."

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

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."