On being true to yourself:

• "Not all those who wander are lost" (Tolkien)
• "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." (Thoreau)
• "Be the change you want to see in the world." (Gandhi)
• "I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world." (Whitman)

On happiness:

• "Happiness only real when shared." (Alexander Supertramp)
• "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." (Gandhi)
• "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." (Thoreau)
• To be awake is to be alive." (Thoreau)
• "Sanity is not statistical." (1984)

On nature:

• "In wildness is the preservation of the world." (Thoreau)
• "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." (Thoreau)

Silliness:

• "Nice to meet you, too, Mel Stein." ("I Love You, Man")