Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.

The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

I think George Mitchell believed in promoting women.

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

If you hope to be independent when there is money, you'll never reach it. On this world, humans can only safely have the knowledge, experience and ability

If you decide to do comedy that involves risk, risk means risk, and you can't complain of flesh wounds if you sit down at the table to play.