A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel.

A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.

A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

A sage is a library whose bookshelves are in his soul.

She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface

I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

We're obviously in speculation territory here, because we don't know what the Trump administration is going to do.

Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted.

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Interne is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.

Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth.

Give me a child for the first 5 years of his life and he will be mine forever.