"I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person."

“There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.”

“The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy, and if energy be not expended the power to generate it is lost. This law shows itself in a thousand ways in the life of man. The arm which is not used becomes palsied. The wealth which comes by chance weakens and destroys. The good which is unused turns to evil. The charity which asks no effort cannot relieve the misery she creates.”

Source : David Starr Jordan (1983). “The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul”

“Want what you have. Do what you can. Be who you are.”

Source : Forrest Church (2008). “Love & Death: My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow”, p.46, Beacon Press

“What is a vow... but the mouth repeating what the heart has already promised?”

“I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.”

“after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.”

“If you argue against reality you will suffer.”

“Some people get lots of pleasure; From books or from music or art; But boys seem to think it's fantastic; To just have a really good fart.”