Telling the right thing is not enough

The ultimate luxury is to reread: to revisit a book to see how time has treated it, how memory has distorted it, or how my own passing years have cast a new light on it.

Anything exceptional gets crushed by common people with jealousy and ignorance and all their common evils.

People usually gossip about people they don't quite understand, are jealous of, or have other negative feelings for.

The Masters is more like a vast Edwardian garden party than a golf tournament.

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

I will put my heart and soul into making sure that the care your son or daughter or mum or dad receives is the same I would want for my own family.

Be on time because it shows you care.

[Barack] Obama won two elections but certainly the first one not because people wanted that agenda of his. He never told them what his agenda was. Not as it played out. Obama was something other.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.