People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)

People perish. Books are immortal.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying.

To make a point of declaring friendship is to cheapen it. For men's emotions are very rarely put into words successfully.

As long as he has a house with two bathrooms. I swear to God, I don't care if he's Jack the Ripper.

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

If you can't get an intro to a VC, hang up your cleats now. You're done, GAME OVER

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.

Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.