"Close your ears to all adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a dreamer. Dream on."

“I'm admitting that I don't know that to be true, but it does sound pretty good. So a big part of my childhood was affecting black culture and black accents and black music and anything black I was into.”

Source : Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. June 6, 2012.

“I'm working my way steadily back and I'm feeling good.”

Source : "Lee Westwood: 'The Ryder Cup excitement is a lot more intense" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2010.

“I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!”

“But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.”

“My dad has a weird hobby; he collects empty bottles... which sounds so much better than "alcoholic."”

“As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane' ... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?”

Source : Interview with George Negus on "George Negus Tonight", March 8, 2004.

“My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.”

“Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.”