Fishing can come as close to doing nothing as anything I can think of.

Part of the pleasure of any kind of walking for me is the very idea of going somewhere-by foot.

Adventure is our birthright.

The joy in catching butterflies is the joy of capturing - for an instant - utter beauty. The satisfaction of being able to let it go is immense.

This is what's so terrifying about being lonely: the instinctive sense that it is literally repulsive, inhibiting contact at just the moment contact is most required.

Choose life, choose to be happy and make somebody smile.

Deep down he is shallow.

When you can bear your own silence, you are free.

Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

Mother is the best and the first teacher to the child .

I think the house call is one of the ways I get an insight into the ways in which people live and the importance of environment in keeping people healthy.

Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.

When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.