Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.

Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect ever to encounter either one.

Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find.

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while.

Beware thoughts that come in the night.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end.

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth.

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

Christmas is Christ love for mankind.

If we knew when we woke up that it would be the last day of our lives, we would transform every little act of our daily humdrum into small farewells.

You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.

For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.

I'm just going to let my record in Congress speak for itself.

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not.

Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.

I was struck all on a heap.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.