When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep

You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.

Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him

Contact lenses are for vain, weak-willed piglets who swan around showing off: 'Look everybody, I can see without spectacles. No one at first glance will ever assume I know how to surf the net.'

What have I got better than anyone? Age.

Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.

Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.