Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.

In a life properly lived, you're a river.

Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.

Death steals everything except our stories.

Fishing makes us less the hostages to the horrors of making a living.

I would rather give full vent to all human loves and disappointments, and take a chance on being corny, than die a smartass.

Practice what you preach and let people learn from you

It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.

There is greatness in everyone.What is your purpose on the earth?Use your unique gifts and talent to influence mankind.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Something lurked inside the truth.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.

Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from.

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

I have four words for you: I love this company, yeah!