By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

People perish. Books are immortal.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

A fallen man is he who has lost the glory of God

As important as it is to work very hard on your dream, it is even more important to ensure that you are working with the right plan.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'

It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective.

A man must study general conditions, to seize them so as to be able to anticipate probabilities.

May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.

Concentration is the magic key that opens the door to accomplishment. By concentrating our efforts upon a few major goals, our efficiency soars, our projects are completed we are going somewhere.

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms.