“You aren’t ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it–don’t plan anything, just go out and do it.”

Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

All of life is a foreign country.

The silence was an intense roar.

This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.

But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.

The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.

It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.

He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Believe in the holy contour of life.

We don’t just build on successes, we also build on failures.

A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

If you can’t find the sunshine, make your own instead!

Work is the best antidote to sorrow.

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

The best road to progress is freedom’s road.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.