Some, it seems to me, elect their rulers for their crookedness. But I think that a straight stick makes the best cane, and an upright man the best ruler.

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 only thing you can take with you when you die is what you are. Character counts more than possessions.

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

In my opinion, if you buy a ticket to see me you're buying experience. People don't want to see me stand there and play guitar, they want to party with us.

When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish-as long as your feet keep on moving.

I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.

Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

Nothing changes the environment like one person deciding to love another, no matter what.

In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond.

In my opinion, there's no condition in life that can't be ameliorated by a dose of junk food.

You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.