Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much.

You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.

Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

'On the Road' completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.

I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don't fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

I never set out to be rich and famous. I wanted to follow my own path.

I'm not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I'm just living my life.

I just live my life.

I just live my own life, and I don't read any of the magazines.

I have never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, philosophy, in politics, or in any thing else where I was capable of thinking for myself. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

“I would rather err with the majority than in my own way.” So thought Saint Augustine. I am of the reverse opinion.

I was never ideological in any sense, or a slave to any particular politics or religion. My solace and my inspiration always came from books and literature.

Italy is a great country, one of the most beautiful in the world, but I've always gone my own way.

When I was growing up, you had to conform and do the same thing that everyone else was doing. I would just go home and make music and be able to make myself happy, but I know that's more of a challenge for some people.

Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots.

The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one inadequacy supplant another and a new regime triumph over the old one. In this sense, he is closer to the philistine; the baker whose chief concern is to bake good bread; the peasant, who works his plow while armies march across his fields.

It is far more independent to travel on foot. You have to sacrifice so much to the horse. You cannot choose the most agreeable places in which to spend the noon., commanding the finest views, because commonly there is no water there, or you cannot get there with your horse.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.