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.

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.

Even when things seem to be going wrong, they just could be going right because when you're in God's will, the negatives are part of his positive program.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.

There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.

Women love to hear a man defending their wife.

Tonight, they’d make their stand, once and for all.

At least when I was govenor, cocaine was expensive.

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

Valuing a business is part art and part science.