When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks. . . But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.
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.
It is often little things that are hardest to stand.
We have a president [Barack Obama] that doesn't know what's happening, and when it comes to the military.
What's most interesting to me is when [Tony DiNozzo] is just madly inappropriate.
Unless you got real short and real fat, you ain't no Booker T!