On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

God did not give me my life to throw it away.

What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

All the world loves a good loser.

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?

There must be relaxation in full extension.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, Id be like Gandhi. Id be like 250 years old.

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone.

God is not only true, but Truth itself.

It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.