There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

Don't need to stand by me, I'm enough for myself.

I can learn to live with guilt. I don't care about being good.

In India, I found a race of mortals living upon the Earth, but not adhering to it, inhabiting cities, but not being fixed to them, possessing everything, but possessed by nothing.

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.

So many beautiful things, I cannot possess them all!

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.

It's kind of fun to listen to Christians who say: I'm a New Testament Christian. What other kind of Christian is there?

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.