By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

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.

Screw the right thing to do. What do you want to do?

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus I rhyme.

First I was a European-style player, then I was a downtown 'noise guy,' and now some people call me an Americana guy.

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.

Novak! Take the blazer off before you punch, it will help. Take it off. Hey, that's from Express.

We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

It's amazing how many things busy people are doing that never will be missed.