Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.

People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is.

Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

I feel my temperature rising. Help me, I'm flaming, I must be a hundred and nine.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed

Leadership is about coping with change

I am not working to earn a living, but I am living movies. I am finding me enjoying the process.

I'm actually very active.

I'm just somebody that isn't that impressed by [Michael Jordan]. There really isn't anybody in the world I'm impressed with.