"A positive attitude and an open mind are true characteristics of all good fishermen"

“And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too and not just girls. But the voices Joan heard were real. There’s clear and substantiated proof they were real.”

“If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.”

Source : "Wanda Sykes, Is 'Sick & Tired'". "News & Notes" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. October 13, 2006.

“The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”

“If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the level he is at.”

“I don't agree with you in saying that in all human minds there is poetry. Man as he came from the hand of his Maker was poetic in both mind and body, but the gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.”

“Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.”

Source : Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher

“Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.”

“Someone who is comfortable, someone who is happy, you see them immediately sit up, stand up and feel better about themselves. If you're able to capture that in a picture, that's the most beautiful picture you can ever take of someone.”