Obscurity is the realm of error.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Sometimesyou meet people and know immediatelythat they were meant to be your friend.

The only thing you have 100 percent control over is you.

The journal is written to everyone and thus to no one.

The summer in youcalms the winter in me.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself-an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

I don't want to sound as if I'm doing something tremendously special. But I am a jazz fan.

The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

Is winning the Open worth a million pounds? Well, it's worthwhile winning it - I would recommend it to anybody!