I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.

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.

I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.

So, Anna, did you knowThat when you kill yourselfThose you say you love, They die too?

I'm the way the truth and the life. Only through me you will go to the father.

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.

I often think that eventually I'd love to do some papers... my correspondence if life calms down a bit, but I think I'd do history or English literature... I've had enough of journos.

The economic misery: who passed NAFTA? You know, Bill Clinton signed that with Hillary's [Clinton] support.

Hidden evils are most dreaded.

Tennis has always been a big challenge to me and to be able to play that kind of tennis - well, only tennis can produce these feelings for me.