Playing golf is like raising children. You keep thinking you'll do better next time.

Advice is like mushrooms. The wrong kind can prove fatal.

Choice, not chance, determines destiny.

The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.

There is always something to be thankful for. If you can't pay your bills, you can be thankful you are not one of your creditors.

Education helps you earn more. But not many schoolteachers can prove it.

Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.

Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers.

The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.

It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Free advice is often overpriced.

From loss breeds new life

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you should!

When you win, you don't get carried away. But if you go step by step, with confidence, you can go far.

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

God's desire is that we excel.

I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you can see the pleasure the performer has, when you can see a glimmer in the eye.

My job is to notice echoes and notice resonances. Scientists are not supposed to do the same thing that cultural critics do.

How do we know that anything really exists, that anything is really the way it seems ot us through our senses?

I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.

Nothing will destroy creativity thought faster than judging the value of the idea on the spot.