I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, to find.

Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.

Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

A voice is a human gift it should be cherished and used to utter as fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

I had only been a citizen for two weeks when I received a summons to appear for jury duty!

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.

Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful.

Political power without economic power is sterile.

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Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.