I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Doubtless God Could Have Made A Better Berry, But Doubtless God Never Did

But God, who is ableto prevail, wrestled with him, as the Angel did with Jacob, and marked him; marked him for his own.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to conscience; for health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of, a blessing money can't buy.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.

Eyes see lies that ears can't hear

Genuine goodness isn’t discovered through postponement but must exist now or not at all. It cannot be based on what is not. We must find it in what is and what we truly see.

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

Good art should elicit a response of 'Huh? Wow!' as opposed to ‘Wow! Huh?'

In L.A. summer's blistering heat, I've seen many girls wearing short skirts with Ugg boots. I like the boots, and the short skirts, but I've always wondered, don't their feet get hot?

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

Passion doesn't create commitment; commitment creates passion. To what are you committed?