I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them.

The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.

Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, ‘Okay, I’m in the tampon aisle, but I don’t see it.'

I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't.

If people don't occasionally walk away from you shaking their heads, you're doing something wrong.

The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.

I still enjoy the company of most dogs more than that of most people, because dogs are capable of uncomplicated enthusiasm.

It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip.

If you stretch your soul, you will find your sacred spirit.

See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.

Marriage is just like business, only a few succeed, many manage & the REST RESIGN.

Who might you be?” she demanded. “A wretched lord of cacophony and sheer decibels? Or a ruthless assassin of harmony?

It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!) "I trust you do what you must " life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.

Let each one of us not waste electricity at home. By doing this, we will also light a lamp in the home of a poor.

You have to consistently be successful to be one of the top players in the world, and everything is possible in life.

Wizard's Eighth Rule Talga Vassternich. (Deserve Victory)