These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

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.

Challenge each problem you face with purposeful thought and determined action. Resolve that 'every' situation you encounter will make you better, stronger, wiser, more skillful and more loving.

The more children there are in the world, the more the world is filled with imagination.

Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.

Truth is its own defense, therefore if something can’t speak for itself, it’s not truth.

All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers.

It ain't a bad plan to keep still occasionally even when you know what you're talking about.

There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

The highest thought is always a thought which contains joy.

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.