When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

Swallows and Amazons for-ever!

. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.

...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too.

Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively.

Auto insurance is a toll bridge, over which every honest driver has to pass.

Let's win one for the Gipper.

Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.

I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.

So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.