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

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

My life is a series of things that just happen.

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

O Lord saves us from overworking! Grant us grace to rest awhile.

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

For the past few years I have engaged in several inappropriate conversations conducted over Twitter, Facebook, e-mail and occasionally on the phone with women I have met online.

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

People who fight fire with fire end up with only the ashes of their own integrity.

The right thing at the wrong time will lead to failure.

He was waiting for something from me. Acknowledgement. Validation. Commiseration, perhaps. I couldn’t even look at him because I was afraid of feeling any more than I already did.

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.