Natives of the Florida Keys often refer to themselves as Conchs, and for good reason: They have been drinking.

If a Greek woman tells you to do something, you do it.

Call me a proud American, if you want, but I truly believe that no other nation on Earth possesses the capabilities to put on a more powerful display of underwater mermaid patriotism.

If I have to choose between opportunity and preparation, I’d choose preparation, without it opportunity is useless.

What's right isn't what's worked.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

All great success is preceded by failure.

I've got a girl that I love so, hey Loddy Loddy Lo.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.

my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion.