Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.

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.

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.

An idea occurs in the mind, where it is confined and useless. An idea lives when it leaves the mind.

The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.

The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

Books crowbar the world open for you.

You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.

All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities.

We need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.

The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.