Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter..

Fishing is a condition of mind wherein you cannot possibly have a bad time..

I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies..

I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me..

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago..

At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be sl….

It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so..

Recipe For Greatness - To bear up under loss; To fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief; To be victor over anger; To smile when tea….

What is writing but an expression of my own life?.

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him..

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply..

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect..

I need this wild life, this freedom..

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired..

Before exulatation had vanished, I felt as if I had been granted a marvellous privilege. Out of the inscrutable waters a beautiful fish had somehow l….

There are always greater fish than you have caught, always the lure of greater task and achievement, always the inspiration to seek, to endure, t….

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods..

Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific to fish in the swift ….

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself..

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me..