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

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

the one universal form of art is music.

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.

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.

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.