Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

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.

Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies!

...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...

Let go of rousing speechand identification with thoughtsUntil your endyou will never be jaded

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

The purpose of the pistol is to stop a fight that somebody else has started, almost always at very short range.

If continually people look and look and always come away enriched, then it's a great work