'What would you call the highest happiness?' Wratislaw was asked. 'The sense of competence ' was the answer given without hesitation.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

If you can think higher thoughts, you can do higher deeds.

Leadership is a choice. It is not a rank.

Fate seems to scourge some people with her furies, while it ravishes others with her graces with none having done absolutely nothing to suffer the furies or merit the graces.

If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.

IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.

You've got to look and pick your shots - and that's where your class and skill comes out.

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.

I used to snowboard 30 days a year. Now its down to eight.

Experts say that if we go to war with Iraq, oil could reach as much as $80 a barrel. Of course, after the war it will be free.

Beaches and romantic comedies are not my thing. I'm a workaholic.