I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.

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.

Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

I think that we do have a great country, but there's a lot of things that we're not so great at. Unfortunately, education is one of them.

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?'

In the end, you can't censor the truth, especially when it comes packaged in hot music.

The more I want a book to be done, the faster I type because I just want to get it out.

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.