Hurdling is like Kung-fu. Everyone comes from a different school. And everybody says 'my Kung-fu is better than your Kung-fu.' You have to find the technique that best fits your body size.

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

Speaking of New York as a traveller I have two faults to find with it. In the first place there is nothing to see; and in the second place there is no mode of getting about to see anything.

Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.

A lot of people, quite frankly, think intense attachments to animals are weird and suspect, the domain of people who can't quite handle attachments to humans.

But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.

The thing that is incredible is life itself.

Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.

Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.]

Dare to dream... and when you dream, dream big.

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.