When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does.

Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it not be better if more people were slackers?

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without

The right mixture of caring and not caring - I suppose that's what love is.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.

Laziness in doing stupid things can be a great virtue.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

For us (Muslims) death is an incident: for them (the Europeans), the end.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

I stay off the Internet.

A woman on a Southwest Airlines flight gave birth to a baby. As soon as he was born, the baby said, 'I had more leg room in the womb.'

Shepherd. It's a very beautiful word. It represents peace. And it meant a lot to me because...I come from a life with shepherds and mountains and all that stuff.

If a guy is a good athlete, he'll end up being a pretty decent golfer if he just takes it up. But you never master it; even the best players in the world never master the game.

I don't consider myself a person of fashion because it's too sophisticated. My thing is I look at style like swagger. I like things that pull me, that I gravitate to.

Why sleep when there are books to read.

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.