My heart swelled with uncontrollable delight.

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.

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

Oh my Valentine! I was waiting for you next to my wide open window just as a flower bud waits for the spring air to bloom.

Everything you need comes into focus when you abandon the unneeded.

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get, except the blinding headaches.

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.

I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

When I was younger I got bullied about the way I looked and I thought once I was older it would stop. I hated going to school, but didn't know who to talk to about it. It knocked my confidence a lot.

Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.

We do have more control over our lives than any politician.

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.