Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Type A Ellie liked to know the rules, like knowing what to expect. Flying blind made her nervous. He prepared to make her all kinds of nervous.

Winning the 2007 Master's was a dream fulfilled culminating on Easter Sunday with my family was very special. You couldn't write it up any better.

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.

Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late."

I am someone who likes to stay positive.