I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

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.

R.I.P.Tom Conlon O'Rourke.Not Dead, just Sleeping.

It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.

The way to defeat fear: decide on a course of conduct and follow it. Keep so busy and work so hard that you forget about being afraid.

I don't think political reform is likely to succeed. [Senators Tom] Udall and [Ron] Wyden, on the intelligence committee, have been sounding the alarm, but they are a minority.

Maybe in the minor leagues. With my velocity, they would pick it up and say, 'Hey, you dropped something.'

I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.

You look like a diabetic strip club owner.

I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.