Attitudes Are Much More Important Than Facts.

It Is Hard For A Free Fish To Understand What Is Happening To A Hooked One.

We Need Criminals To Identify Ourselves With, To Secretly Envy And To Stoutly Punish. They Do For Us The Forbidden, Illegal Things We Wish To Do.

Hope Is A Necessity For Normal Life And The Major Weapon Against The Suicide Impulse.

Love Is A Medicine For The Sickness Of The World; A Prescription Often Given, Too Rarely Taken.

When A Trout Rising To A Fly Gets Hoooked On A Line And Finds Himself Unable To Swim About Freeely, He Begins With A Fight Which Results In Struggles And Splashes And Sometimes An Escape. Often, Of Course, The Situation Is Too Tough For Him. In The Same Way The Human Being Struggles With His Environment And With The Hooks That Catch Him. Sometimes He Masters His Difficulties; Sometimes They Are Too Much For Him. His Struggles Are All That The World Sees And It Naturally Misunderstands Them. It Is Hard For A Free Fish To Understand What Is Happening To A Hooked One.