If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

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.

A police state is a country run by criminals

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.

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

What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!