The only easy day was yesterday!

Complacency kills. Paranoia is the reason I’m still alive.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

It's human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. That's just so normal.

On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.

Passion + Persistence = Possibility

The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body.