A true sportsman is a hunter lost in the woods and out of ammo.

Alexandros of Antioch took a block of marble and chiseled away from it everything that was not his masterpiece, the Venus de Milo. If you will chisel away one fault from your character every day, you may discover - a) that you're actually a statue of Margaret Thatcher. b) that you're still just a block of marble. c) that there are pigeon droppings on your shoes. d) that you, too, are a hidden masterpiece.

All is illusion, although as long as there's an illusion that the kids need to be fed, all might as well be reality.

So often the shortest distance to happiness is the length of an about-face.

There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.

Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.