Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.

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.

My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day.

As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living.

Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.

Something of eternal significance transpired there. Not only was the calendar of the world changed, but heaven itself and eternity were affected.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.

Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

Definitely you don't become famous by doing something bad; that's a professional death sentence.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.