If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.

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.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Greed:Your own lies make you sick.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

A safe rule where Jewish propaganda is concerned is to multiply or divide their figures by ten, at least, before accepting them as the basis for discussion.

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

Keep your temper, said the Caterpillar.

If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.

All the honors of men in a state of sleep are as nothing.

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.