Failure is life's magnifying glass.

The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence.

Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.

I am not 'most' and I am not 'people'.

Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.

The dilemma of our lives is that boys can do everything and girls can do very little.

Nothing more than nothing can be said.

I think it was a natural step to start recording my own music.

The only bad ideas are the ones never tried.

I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but it signifies much to the living; it either tortures their feelings or hardens their hearts.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.