When I turn down the volume, it's amazing how much I can actually hear.

In photography and in life, always look for the light -- if you don't see it, bring it...

The only gift to yourself is your ability to seek knowledge.

You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

With some exceptions, the wrong people are running U.S. companies. It's been that way for years, and it hasn't gotten much better.

But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.

Really in all my years on Tour, in the U.S. Open I probably played great golf in two of them, out of maybe 20, so it's a lot of work.

My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.

Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle.