Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

People perish. Books are immortal.

Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the game is its own referee.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.

You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.

The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.

Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road.

down from his brow she ran his curls like thick hyacinth clusters full of blooms

Nothing is swifter than rumor.

Even when you paint, you never stop drawing.

It's likely that only vibrations of love and gratitude appear in nature, and observations of nature shows this to be true.

The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.

[I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

I was thinking about that, about what lines you'd be willing to cross if someone took your loved one or child.