"Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black."

"Perseverance does not equal worthiness."

"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."

"They say golf is not a contact sport. Not the way we play it."

"Now they're bouncing messages off the stars. Bet the messages aren't worth the technology. Think of 'See you Friday, Ethel', chattering round the eternal spheres."

"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"

"First things first, but not necessarily in that order."

"To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished."

"As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will serve his purpose."

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

"An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it."

"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."