It is difficult to live in the present ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

When you spent your time, you are actually spending your life.

People think that my favorite roles to do are villains, but I find comedy to be the most challenging and rewarding.

[The] noblest of [Arabs] united the love of arms with the profession of merchandise.

There is within each one of us a potential for goodness beyond our imagining; for giving which seeks no reward; for listening without judgment; for loving unconditionally.

So, I play in a band. It's a really underground band. Super underground. Very underground. Like, we don't even actually play.

By the time Gandhi met Muhammad Ali in Delhi in April 1915it was, Gandhi said, 'love at first sight.'

When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.

Moral principle is the foundation of law.

I love what I do. When a month goes by and I'm not working, I'm miserable.