"I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators."

"I would hope that understanding and reconciliation are not limited to the 19th hole alone."

"Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule."

"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men."

"Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before."

"With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot."

"Let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker."