Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.
History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods
Nature's great law, and the law of all men's minds? To its own impulse every creature stirs: Live by thy light, and Earth will live by hers.
The strongest part of a religion today is its unconscious poetry
Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.
Sad Patience, too near neighbour to despair.
Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches.
The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.
I know I'm a long way from greatness, but I am beginning to come at it in my own way. I can go through the basic motions pretty well, don't rely quite as religiously on specific fly patterns as I once did, have worked out ways of compensating for some of my most egregious weaknesses and have come to count heavily on timing because it's a hell of a lot easier to catch fish when the fish are biting.