Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

The idea is to eat well and not die from it - for the simple reason that that would be the end of your eating.

The only durable sense of success is if you've followed your calling.

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

If all I did was pretend I was Wilderness Jimmy, I would go stale. You know, I fish maybe 100 days of the year and bird-hunt, but if I didn't go to Paris once or twice a year, I'd be crazy.

It's something that you can't teach. It's something they have to already have.