Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.

The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster.

The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.

I gave you something you can never give back. Don't you mind?

Thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness in our pain is the indisputable proof that we believe God is a part of our pain.

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times men would not stop to ask directions.

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.

You entered a marathon with hills? You idiot.

I was brought up a Catholic, so I take no pleasure in guilt.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

I'm a simple guy, you know? If I do something, it's not going to be, 'Look at this, look at that.' It just happens.

If God had intended me to make excuses for who I am, He would have given me better excuses.

Of course, no matter how hard we try to be objective as reporters, our life experiences and personal circumstances influence our journalism, including the choice of topics we pursue.