“Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions”

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps”

“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers ”

“It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little”

“One should eat to live, not live to eat ”

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature”