Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this.

... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

God’s power supersedes any power.

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh.

I’ve been a slave to football. It follows you home, it follows you everywhere, and eats into your family life. But every working man misses out on some things because of his job.

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.