Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you c... - Henry David Thoreau

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."

"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."

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."