As a true patriot, I should be ashamed to think that Adam in paradise was more favorably situated on the whole than the backwoodsman in this country.

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.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Whenever anybody does something in a big way, it's always rejected at home and accepted someplace else.

What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.

Should, is the worst word in the English language. People always think things "should" be a certain way, and when they're not, they're disappointed.

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

Pamela Anderson is a great dancer considering she can't see her feet.

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

There is no substitute for a firsthand encounter with the Word of God.

I think people figure out early in their lives what currency they can work in.