I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

I look at trees, hunt mushrooms, and watch animals. Fishing is what gets me out into the woods so I can notice these things.

There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

Spinning yarns is a protection against the nuttiness... the greed, the hate all around us.

Fishing is such great fun, I have often felt, that it really ought to be done in bed

The best time to go fishing is when you can get away.

To paraphrase a deceased patriot, I regret that I have only one life to give to my fly-fishing.

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything about the habits of trout and little more about the manner of taking them.

You possess strength for everyday life.

Fear usually benefits the feared

We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and learn, so that's what we've tried to do.

Propaganda begins when dialogue ends.

You really have to keep people interested, at all times, until the punch comes. You can do that with a film that lasts 90 to 100 minutes. That's very difficult to do at 160 minutes.

Happiness is a skill, emotional balance is a skill, compassion and altruism are skills, and like any skill they need to be developed. That's what education is about.

You have to be going somewhere to have the energy you need to get there.

Having experienced everything one time already made it easier the second time around.

Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".

Let us our lives, our souls, Our debts, our careful wives, Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!