Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

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.

Sometimes, the best deed you can do for another person is to not save them from their troubles.

Our doctor would never really operate unless it was necessary. He was just that way. If he didn't need the money he wouldn't lay a hand on you.

The Bible says we must choose two ways of life.

One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.

The biggest big business in America is not steel, automobiles, or television. It is the manufacture, refinement and distribution of anxiety.

Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

I wasn't expecting to do what I'm doing now...I've grown as a player and as a man.

I like people's attitudes more than fashion or beauty or whatever it is.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

I'd like to think they're staring at me because of my white-hot animal magnetism, but I'm not Elvis. I'm Lobster Boy, hear me roar.