Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

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.

Happiness in a family really revolves around how much money I have in my disposal.

One of the mitigating benefits of children is that they make a Lego habit more respectable.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

When I left New York, after getting fired from Metallica, all I remember is that I wanted blood. Theirs.

If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

The light is already there. In Zen Buddhism there's a little speck of dust on the mirror, and that's us.

If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.

Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.