Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

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.

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.

The thing about rabbits, sir, is that everybody has one. I'd like to see you step up to the goat-class where I feel you belong. Frankly you look more like a goat man to me.

A virtuous, ordinary life, striving for wisdom but never far from folly, is achievement enough.

You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

Google and Facebook extend internet access across the world, but the access is generally speaking to an internet that is focused on the advertisers to those sites.

I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.