I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.

It seemed that the good people were always cleaning up the messes.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.