The inhabitants of the Cape generally do not complain of their "soil," but will tell you that it is good enough for them to dry their fish on.

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.

Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours?

I think the other thing that shaped me a little bit is that I really didn't have any success in music until my early to mid-30s.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass.

War is the father of all things.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

I try and eat good. On the road, that's next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we're in Texas - that's what you do there.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.

You were born free by accident. You live free by choice. To die free is your responsibility.

I think it is important to be present in the places where you are working. It is not only about doing a project, but following the project through its construction.