When you’re dying, even your unhappiest memories can induce a sort of fondness, as if delight is not confined to the good times, but is woven through your days like a skein of gold thread.

Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past present and future.

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

You're never going to be a Yankee for a day, or you're never going to be a Laker, but with Pro-Ams, they allow you to feel like you're a professional golfer and play under their conditions.

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.

Gently I stir a white feather fan, With open shirt sitting in a green wood. I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone; A wind from the pine-tree trickles on my bare head.

If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.