It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.
The Talmud: Heart's Blood of the Jewish Faith.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a steamroller. But a man cannot escape being part of a milieu - and a recognizable part - unless he flees naked to a cave, never to return. The sensible thing is to use hard thinking to find the right way to live and then to live that way. What matters is living with dignity, with decency, and without fear.
Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.
The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.
Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.
Him [my dad] bringing me to the clubhouse when I was young helped me out because I see what they do in baseball and what it's about. He pretty much told me all this stuff when I was younger. Now it's just a matter of doing it.