During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird.

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

Give me some sugar.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.

I told Leonard, in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2, 'I'm going on vacation. If I tell you where I'm going, then it won't be a vacation.'

If you have inner peace, nobody can force you to be a slave to the outer reality.

A friend gives hope when life is low, a friend is a place when you have nowhere to go, a friend is honest, a friend is true. A friend is precious a friend is u.

I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.

science can only take you so far and then you have to leap