“The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.”

“Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.”

“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.”

“It’s all right,” the boy murmured as he felt her trembling. “My grandmother always told me ‘Never try to turn back on a new road—you don’t know what adventures await you.”

“The long and winding road that leads to your door
Will never disappear,
I've seen that road before it always leads me here,
Leads me to your door.”

“If people should say of me that I tried always to go straight there is perhaps no credit to me in that. It may have been mere indolence. The straight road always seemed to me the easiest.”

“The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.”

“I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.”

“There are some places … that the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some places where the road keeps going.”

“So goodbye yellow brick road,
Where the dogs of society howl.
You can't plant me in your penthouse,
I'm going back to my plough.”