"Since we are exposed to inevitable sorrows, wisdom is the art of finding compensation."

“I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it.”

Source : Interview with Matt Cotterill, higher-frequency.com. April 15, 2006.

“To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.”

“God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow,”

“Playing from deep grass is a fact of life in professional golf.”

“To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.”

Source : George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

“The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.”

“People, buying my stuff, can take it wherever they go and can rebuild it if they choose. If they keep it in their heads, that's fine too. They don't have to buy it to have it - they can just have it by knowing it.”

“When a couple of young people strongly devoted to each other commence to eat onions, it is safe to pronounce them engaged.”

Source : James Montgomery Bailey (1873). “Life in Danbury: Being a Brief But Comprehensive Record of the Doings of a Remarkable People, Under More Remarkable Circumstances, and Chronicled in a Most Remarkable Manner”, p.230