I will see this game of life out to its bitter end

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 can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Failure. It doesn't exist. 'Failure' is just what happens when we lose perspective.

Wherever you are - be all there.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

People never like me and I never like people

I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.

People are inherently good. Our souls are magnificent and capable of extraordinary performance.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!

Satire is the disease of art.

Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.