You always admire what you really don't understand.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

That which costs little is less valued.