The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking large ambition and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

After a semester or so my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested but I went into a diversion programme and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

My mother enjoyed old age and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.