By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary. It will seem to them that the game is not as good as it might be.

It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.