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The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if - if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we've coming in, I'll veto it. I mean, I'm going to try to work with you the best I can, but I'm going to veto it.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.

I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.