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.

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

Sales professional is a profession deals with people, it's a people business not a selling job.

Jasper!” Casey shouts, startling the young woman. “My cargo is talking to me!

Man is firmly convinced that he is awake in reality he is caught in a net of sleep and dreams which he has unconsciously woven himself.

At the end of the day, with all due respect, the Jews are the ultimate victims of the twentieth century.

Those who enjoy the blessings of liberty under a divinely inspired constitution should promote morality, and they should practice what the Founding Fathers called civic virtue.

One thing that's great about the sax is that you can always get better with the horn and improve upon what you did.

Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

Acting is in everything but the words.