I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference. [...] George can tell you screwy things, and it don't matter. It's just the talking. It's just bein' with another guy. That's all.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.