I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.
I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
Every great man inevitable resents a partner in greatness.
The remaining liberty of the world was to be destroyed in the place where it stood.
Let him leave the imperial court, who wishes to be virtuous. Virtue and absolute power cannot coexist.
Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.
No man is ever innocent when his opponent is the judge.
Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying.
. . . All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end. . . contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
That which you believe becomes your world
If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.