It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of blindness.

The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

I may be the wrong person for my life.

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

It takes just a litte attitudinal slip to show a big pride.

The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.

...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.

You can draw power from everything in your life. In order to do that, everything has to be set up in a proper way.

I have to say, opening up in New York taught me a lot about that level of attention to detail. London's a tough market, Paris is a tough market, but New York, well, that's extraordinary.

Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

My writing has developed drastically . The Return of the Prodigal Son is the most important thing I've done, and my most mature book.

I estimate that 75% of those organizations using Scrum will not succeed in getting the benefits that they hope for from it.

Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine.