Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.

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.

When i dream, i see the Hope. When i see the Hope, i am the dream.

After a taste of a Scot, you'll never look elsewhere again."A brunette smiled seductively, "That's quite a boast.""I'm quite a man.

In early youth as we contemplate our coming life we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

When I design, I always pull from things that are significant to me. In my work, I search for happiness and then try to convey that joy in the clothes.

Live life to the fullest everyday, 'cause we never know what day will be our last.

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.

She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.

As a ballplayer, you just want to feel respected. I like the way Washington presented the team to me and I feel good about what was being said.