Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

Fame is addictive. Money is addictive. Attention is addictive. But golf is second to none.

At 17, I traveled to Mexico in a lemon yellow Mustang and saved money by bunking down in cheap, cockroach-infested flophouses. In my early 20s, I went on to thumb rides through Europe, readily sleeping in train stations, my backpack as a pillow. Once I even hunkered down for a night on a sidewalk grate - for warmth - in Paris.