Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird.

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.

I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.

Whatever it took to get elected president of the United States, I don't think being a complete and utter moron is one of those predicates.

No matter what happens, I'll always say that I've had a wonderful life.

Doncaster will hit Villa with fire and broomstick.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

I miss the old Kanye, straight from the 'Go Kanye, Chop up the soul Kanye, set on his goals Kanye, I hate the new Kanye, the bad mood Kanye, The always rude Kanye, spaz in the news Kanye...

Being stuck in airports, you always end up buying perfume and sunglasses.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.