Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

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.

The experience of testifying and the aftermath have changed my life.

I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

I find myself a fascinating subject.

Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love.

I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself.

No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.

If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.

If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go.