I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.

America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

Making the world safe for hypocrisy.

It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between.

Set backs and failures are the major motivations in life.Some are so painful that don't kill maybe that's why they make me strong, immune and a reason to fight with myself.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

The only thing better than one of my songs is one of my songs with a glass of scotch.

You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose

We want to move even a step forward toward resolving the abduction issue.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

It's human nature, we take a mile when we're given an inch. We're crazy. You see what we did to the animals! They don't even exist anymore!