Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home.

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.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Death is the final dance of dreams, desires, loves and hopes.

Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

The real con artist is Senator Marco Rubio who was elected in Florida and who has the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He doesn't go to vote. He's absent.

Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.

All souls do not reach enlightenment. Some souls reach a certain point and stay there. Some souls actually decline and go into different cycles.

There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

If synagogues are attacked, this would give Jewish extremists an excuse to attack mosques.

I've always tried to listen to a lot of different music from around the world.