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

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.

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.

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

The dead are never far from us. They're in our hearts and on our minds and in the end all that separates us from them is a single breath, one final puff of air.

The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.