I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

Seek and achieve "GREATNESS" instead of mere success

CONGRATULATIONS DL Havlin! Your entry, "There are No Lights in Naples", an unpublished short fiction - flash fiction genre category, is a finalist for the 2016 Royal Palm Literary Awards competition!

If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers. But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet.

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.

All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.