Society tends to stick labels on everything and everyone. The label that is given to you will stick with you for a lifetime.

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.

...hoping that he might peek through a gap in the fance and see that Patch was really a big softy, all bark and no bite, or, as they sometimes say in England, "All mouth and no trousers"!

Do no harm, but take no shit.

I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.

A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.

It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.

Don't seek to lead people to a God you have ceased to believe in.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

Someone need not be perfect to be a great dancer - feeling a soul is more important than what the body can do.

I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.