Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Lee Trevino

I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

Dan Quayle

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

Jo Nesbo

When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties

Virginia Woolf

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Andrew Carnegie

I also know that there have been many times in our history when the proximity of an election has induced exactly the kind of leadership and consensus-building that produce progress in our democracy.

Joe Lieberman

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes

Orson Scott Card

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

Orson Scott Card

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Stephen Leacock, Why I refuse to

It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden...

Edgar Cayce

My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.

Anne Tyler