History is too important to be left to the historians.

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.

The heart will stretch a short love into long memories.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.” Easy enough to say when you’re a Roman nobleman (or Shakespeare!), but there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself even a little is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable.

Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak.

'Friends' will always remain friends.

The spontaneous power of the child, his demand for self-expression, can not by any possibility be suppressed.

If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.