...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.

Fly-fishing is the most fun you can have standing up.

A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.

I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.

The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.

About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

I used to be very shy. When I first started, I had to go to a casting, and I had to go in a bikini. I thought I was too skinny. But I went in and got the job! And that's how I started.

It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

If you've ever found yourself pushed to the limits of your tolerance... you find yourself doing some things that, from the outside, can be seen as quite insane.

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

They're kind of baby steps. We haven't made any measurable impact on the mortality rate or survival of this disease.

The face and the actor is great, but if you were to start out and you said, "my name is Humphrey" somebody would punch you out, because that's a stupid name to have.

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

The man who has some respect for his person keeps his carcass out of sight, hides himself as perfectly as he can.