There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel.

A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.

... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.

A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

The road to overcoming your fears could lead you to unbearable places but sometimes such gives you an edge than nothing else could give.

Your success in the job market has nothing to do with the job market itself - instead it has everything to do with you.

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Owning our past allows us to own our future.

It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.

I would say we want to stop the firing of rockets, for sure. But we also want to dismantle the terror - the tunnel - the terror tunnel networks that we have uncovered.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

People die . . . so love them every day. Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone. Love changes . . . but not the love you give. And if you love, you'll never be alone.

Marlon Brando is the most influential movie actor of the century.