A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose the fairway.

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.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

The crickets still sing in October. And lilly, she's trying to bloom. Tho she's resting her head on the shoulder of death, she still shines by the light of the moon.

It is only when you take responsibility for your life that you discover how powerful you truly are

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.

I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.

If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

Anybody who understands the justice system knows innocent people are convicted every day.

We had Taiwan, Egypt, Lebanon, and Oman open their markets to our beef, and we're excited about that.

If you be King, why should not I succeed?