The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

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.

Tonight or every night if you wish you can have a very distinguished guest from the space: Just open your curtain at night, then the Moon will visit you!

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I've had. And now that I'm in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won't be half as much anger as there was.

Do I need to apologize for Mr.[Tom] Coburn's statements? Because I certainly don't agree with those, either.

There's no limit to what you can accomplish in the world of entertainment. It's all I've ever known since I was 19.

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

More traffic means more advertising dollars.

You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from.

A lot of people wrote that Roger (Maris) and I didn't like each other and that we didn't get along. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.