“Because I wished for everyone to live, I did everything I could.”

“I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.”

“As I wish I could, live without water. As I wish I could, live without air. I wish I could, love you a little less.”

“I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.”

“I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.”

“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. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...”