"The divorce is from my old putter. I think it's final - at least we're due for a long separation. I've suffered with that old putter for two years now. It got so rude I couldn't stand it."

“Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination, which the steadfast heart will conquer, and the large mind transcend.”

“Omg. My long time teammate on the Nadadores and team USA, Fran Crippen, passed away today while racing in Dubai.”

“I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.”

Source : Interview with Luis Gomez, www.chicagotribune.com. January 11, 2013.

“We sit and talk quietly, with long lapses of silence, and I am aware of the stream that has no language, coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.”

Source : William Carlos Williams (1995). “Paterson”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

“For me, personally, Im usually not on my phone that much. I prefer listening to old radio shows and watching foreign films than tweeting.”

“And I think a painting has such a limited life anyway”

“You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.”

“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.”