If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

You learn their honesty, you learn their competitiveness. You learn a lot about a person. It's not that they have to sink the putt and there's a great deal of talent involved - but you do learn about how competitive a person is on the golf course, and frankly, how honest.