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.

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.

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.

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.

Long after people forget what you said or did, they’ll remember how you made them feel.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

I don't think I've ever really had a home before, not until I met you.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.

Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

Why wilt thou be so sottish, such an enemy to thyself, as to prefer puddle-water, and that poisoned too and stolen, before pure living waters out of thy own well?

I think there's a kind of elegance to it, to work within that framework where what you don't see is often more enticing.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.