Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.
A fact may blossom into a truth.
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!
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.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
The people gave me the responsibility of building the future of this nation And I did it with honor.
This is the premiere food symposium in the world. To quote you guys: 'Intended to invoke a sense of courage and urgency. . . Enabling this year's symposium to become a venue where we can reflect on the stories and ideas that no one usually gets the opportunity to tell. ' So I stand here with the guts to ask you, please, let's do something. Let's do something and feed those that we're not reaching collectively.
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
If Detroit was a watershed concert for me, traveling with Willie Nelson through Texas and Louisiana was a milestone of a different sort.