Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
Henry David Thoreau

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Henry David Thoreau

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David Thoreau

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
Henry David Thoreau

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Henry David Thoreau

I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
Mitch Hedberg

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.
Mitch Hedberg

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Joseph Campbell

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
Sun Tzu

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
Edgar Allan Poe

I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest Hemingway

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
Ernest Hemingway

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
Jimi Hendrix

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
Jim Rohn

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?
Jim Rohn