As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.

The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.

By not sharing our interests, talents and abilities, we limit our possibilities.

You want ME in the ring? Now I know you've been drinking

I'm happy people look at me as a role model.

We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

When someone asks me about my diet I feel terrible saying that I don't really have one.

Everybody has some talents - we all have an art side and some talent - but you have some areas where you are better than others. My area is acting, I guess. I hope.

The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling about it to certain people.

Integrating the mind is the essence of life. Decide you will always say and do only what you feel is right. Then, you will come to tremendous clarity and conviction in the inner and outer worlds.