When I would go a-visiting, I find that I go off the fashionable street,--not being inclined to change my dress,--to where man meets man, and not polished shoe meets shoe.

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.

The Soul selects her own Society.

There is no such thing as an innocent reading, we must ask what reading we are guilty of.

I have seen many educated persons splitting garbage over roads and many uneducated persons cleaning it.

Maybe in fairytales you're only as old as you feel, but here in L. A. you're every second as old as your pores.

By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.

I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.

hindsight is gained through experience

Be a military flier or be in a band; those were the two hippest things I could imagine.

There is no coming to heaven with dry eyes.