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

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.

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.

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.

Remember that happiness is a way of travel, it's not a destination.

People follow those who act like leaders, not those who proclaim themselves to be leaders.

Every now and then say, 'What the fu©k.' 'What the fu©k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.

I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.

And so I beat him and beat him until he kissed me. And then I kept on beating him until he did it properly.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

People seldom live up to their baby pictures.