You've got to make sure that you make the best of the day that you're in..

The only fear is fear itself, so get rid of it..

I recreate myself; that is my only power..

I am doing what I love to do..

I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!.

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

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it..

Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has..

I see and approve better things, but follow worse..

You cannot lose what you never had..

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime.

We don't have anything planned, so nothing can go wrong..

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them..

We considered behaving, but it's against our nature..

Before you invest in something, invest the time to understand it.

I am so not technically proficient at all..

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea..

...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water..

I just find something to learn in everything..

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming..

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously..