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.

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.

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.

The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.

Sometimes you get everything you ever wanted, only it doesn't look like what you wanted anymore.

Today the world seems to be like a stagnated place, because the majority of humanity are not eager to see others rise.

I change by not changing at all.

To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

I like the concept of local education.

Some people don't even recognize real love when it comes without being called or sought.

Interesting doesn't always equal practical, but being practical is always less interesting.

Once the music gets in you, it doesn't leave you.

For most men, a stepford wife would bore them to tears after a couple of weeks

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way.