Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames our wickedness. It is discipline in the equality of men--for all men are equal before fish.