To breathe the same air as the angels, you must go to Tahoe.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

One who is serious all day will never have a good time, while one who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.

Looking at the stars always makes me dream.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

Any one thing in creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.