Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough.

I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.

One who trusts God at all costs will be rewarded at all costs.

Whether it's college or WNBA, its basketball and the more you play the less you need to adjust.

Aesthetes never do anything but what they are told.

Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.

I love just being passionate about something rather than just caring about the money or whos in the movie.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.