Life is an honor, albeit anonymously delivered.

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.

You can run from the past, but it always catches up with you.

Love is a powerful device that builds the broken bridges.

I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.

Right now, the old guys, the old farts, if you will, are still running the show, and the women haven't gotten their place yet at all.

Why would I lose sleep when I really need valuable sleep just to recuperate and come back and do my job?

Of course, we can change. We're very adaptable. But it takes a while.

I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time - without UN approval and much broader support from the international community.

And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.

A path to citizenship for those who are here illegally in my view is unfair to those waiting sometimes a decades in line to come here.

You have not really learned a commandment until you have obeyed it. The Church suffers today from Christians who know volumes more than they practice.