I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself

I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself.

I live in a beautiful part of the world - western New Hampshire along the Baker River - and my family and I spend a lot of time outdoors.

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.

As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.

I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!

Expression that comes from the deepest, darkest place that most of us would rather hide from the rest of the world is the substance that will most likely also deeply affect others.

The beginning of a life of greatness starts from you becoming the biggest fan of your positive self.

All theology is a kind of birthdayEach one who is born Comes into the world as a questionFor which old answersAre not sufficient…

No holidays, no country.

When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud or vulgar picture but, instead, that it stimulates my thinking and intrigues me.

The secret of success is this: there is no secret of success.

To invite people to dine with us is to make ourselves responsible for their well-being for as long as they are under our roofs.

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

With public speaking, practicing congruence is very helpful - allowing the words to be expressed with the face and body. It helps to think of simply "turning up the nonverbal volume."