“He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk toequally important qualities in a friend.”

“Business is no more about making money than the human body is about making blood. Yes you need to make the stuff, but only to serve your higher aims.”

“Beating the competition is relatively easy. Beating yourself is a never-ending commitment.”

“For some, I realize, business is the all-out pursuit of profits, period, full stop, but for us business was no more about making money than being human is about making blood.”

“Like books, sports give people a sense of having lived other lives, of taking part in other peoples victories. And defeats. When sports are at their best, the spirit of the fan merges with the spir...”

“Id tell men and women in their midtwenties not to settle for a job or a profession or even a career. Seek a calling. Even if you dont know what that means, seek it. If youre following your calling,...”

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”