"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”

“I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.”

Source : Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.

“What is poetry which does not save nations or people?”

“So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.”

Source : Robert Barclay (1850). “An Apology for the Christian Divinity: As the Sameis Held Forth and Preached by the People Called, in Scorm Quakers, Being a Full Explanation and Vindication of Their Principles and Doctrines”, p.230

“It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.”

Source : Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.147

“I think what we do is really, at times, a complicated thing. But at the end of the day it's so important that we make art for people that need to escape reality for a second. That's what music has always been for me. It's been a way to tap out of what's going on in my personal life.”

“Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since the initiation of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946-in trying to find the words that would persuasively explain that educational exchange is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign-policy activities.”

“And this mess is so big And so deep and so tall, We cannot pick it up. There is no way at all!”