The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

The way your curious eyes were chasing mine when I stood in front of you, I knew I had known these eyes before.

A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

There is no economic problem and, in a sense, there never has been.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.

Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.