I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

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.

My lyrics aren't offensive. Some people find everything offensive.

Yahweh, you are awesome in power!

Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.

Well, maybe surf one time; I think it would be fun to catch a wave just once.

Of course I believe in free will. Do we have a choice?

I'm a pretty private person, so I'd like to say I'm a good ear and that I keep my mouth shut.

I was the best man at the wedding... If I'm the best man, why is she marrying him?

To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten.

Style to me is incidental. The British are very adept at creating it for its own sake, but the best style is incidental. John Coltrane had a style but it was totally incidental to what he was.

I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.