"What would you call the highest happiness, Lewie?" he asked. "The sense of competence," was the answer, given without hesitation.

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.