A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.

Everyone carries with them at least one piece to someone else's puzzle.

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.

Hold up your hands before your eyes. You are looking at the hands of God.

Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

The only thing truly within our power, may be whether or not we will behave in each moment with arrogance or reverence.

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

Perhaps the hardest lesson to learn is not to be attached to the results of your actions.

Things are more like they are now...than they have EVER been before!

There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

Learning to be silent is far more difficult and far more important than learning to recite prayers.

The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.

I don't want to be so confident in myself.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.