There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.
I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.
Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.
Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.
Maybe if I knew music I couldn't do what I am doing.
By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.
I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.
Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.
Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life.