Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?

The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?

Game fish are too valuable to be caught only once.

The fish you release maybe a gift to another, as it may have been a gift to you.

There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish.

...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.

Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.

Don’t expect a reward for what you do, from people, rather what matters is how you walk and are valued by God

Your thoughts don't matter if they are not converted into actions.

You are the only one who can choose your attitude for you.

There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be one of them or simply live among them taking notes and photographs.

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small Durance deal with that steep or deep.

I've also found thousands that have reached out to me in a way that maybe they never did. And it's broadened the ministry in other ways that people now relate.

Children are not yet fools, but we shall turn them into imbeciles like ourselves, with high I.Q.'s if possible.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.