The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

Reform is born of need, not pity. No vital movement of the people has worked down, for good or evil; fermented, instead, carried up the heaving, cloggy mass.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.

... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

America may have great poets and novelists, but she never will have more than one necromancer.

Nowhere in this country, from sea to sea, does nature comfort us with such assurance of plenty, such rich and tranquil beauty as in those unsung, unpainted hills of Pennsylvania.

We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

On the value of blind shots to golf course design.

In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key position.

You're constantly trying to prove yourself, even after you've made it.

I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.

If you really look at the aftermath of Iraq, Iran is going to be taking over Iraq. They've been doing it. And it's not a pretty picture.

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.

Surfing frees everything up. It's just the best soul fix. Life should be stress free, and that's what surfing is all about.