My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.

You put your time where your priority is.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

If it's the other guy's fault, you can't fix it. Don't blame other people for your problems. That gives them all the power. Own up to your mistakes.

Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad.

Madness breeds madness.

Well I wouldn't say that I was in the 'great' class but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

We try to invest in companies that are putting together environmental programs and working to improve their overall social and environmental self.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

In golf your strengths and weaknesses will always be there. If you could improve your weaknesses, you would improve your game. The irony is that people prefer to practice their strengths.

No honest work of man or woman "fails"; it feeds the sum of all human action.

Comedy is a medicine - a healing process that can help people get through difficult times and understand things better

I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.