There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.

Walking is a way of being somewhere, rather than striving to arrive.

The way a good rod first flexes and then extends its muscles as the line quickens, tightens, rises off the water and does figure eights in mid-air is one of the miracles of humanly applied dynamics.

Either you like cats or you don't. Whole nations have been divided on what people thought of an animal that mates openly, walks in silence and keeps its own counsel.

I feel like I should probably ask you to leave. But I don’t really want you to go. I want you to stay, but I know you shouldn’t.- Hope

Praise a large domain cultivate a small estate.

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

Nerds are far more interesting human in later life.

Communication is not saying something; communication is being heard.

Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.

While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

I think violence is counter-productive and it is bad in democratic societies.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.