To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.

I am at home among trees.

Show me someone who never gossips and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

Some are weather-wise some are otherwise.

In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride.

I'm not really book-smart.

What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!

Duncan became a legend before he became a player at Everton.

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.