The shadow of fear and uncertainty lies over most of us; for us the future seems far from being as clear and open as we believed it would be.

In my belief, a harvest is also a legacy, for very often what you reap is, in the way of small miracles, more than you consciously know you have sown.

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.

the one universal form of art is music.

I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the subconscious; it stays there and festers. But to look, even regularly, upon what you remember and know you've forgiven is achievement.

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.