Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all.

But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That’s what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.

Happiness [is] only real when shared

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.

I don’t want to know what time it is. I don’t want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

Real Love may run on a lower voltage, but it’s also more grounded & sustainable.

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.

There are no heroes and there are no villains. There are just opposing points of view. That's all history is...the viciously long battle between world views.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life.

The most powerful State in the world, which up to now was relatively protected from terrorist violence, is no longer an inviolable sanctuary.