A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

I'm strong beyond appearances reveal, But I'm human, and have weak moments still.

Will and Will Power both are important, first is the WILL and then Power to Implement.

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

I could fall for you in a heartbeat

Let me be serious: divorce is a sacred institution between a man and a woman who hate each other. God wanted Adam to pay alimony to Eve, not Steve.

If only we could have them back as babies today, now that we have some idea what to do with them.

God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.

Getting the UK 'Climate Ready' has the potential to support economic growth for this country which should be a priority for all of us