No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

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 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.

There is always hope for the living.Keep hope alive.Never give in to fear.

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.

Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.

That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here.

Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag

It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion.