The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old.

I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.

To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.

Have a holly jolly Christmas!

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

I'm a law-abiding man. That is, if there's any law to abide by.

In an age of rust, she comes up stainless steel

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.

When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

A girl can do what she wants to do / And that's what I'm gonna do.

Cooking can be rewarding when it is a choice and no longer the onerous duty of the housewife, and when a dishwasher can lighten the load at the other end of the process.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Hell is having to execute a pointless act from which nothing ever comes except the need to do it again.