For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.

A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.

People who have never had an addiction don't understand how hard it can be.

I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously.

I think that we all have something in common in that we have dreams. The thing about dreams is sometimes you get to live them out.

That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.

I'm 42 now, what I would consider prime time.

Compassion is the religion of the heart.

As far back as history records people thinking, thinking peoplehave been befuddled by the mysteries of life and existence.

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

Everyone, regardless of ability or disability, has strengths and weaknesses. Know what yours are. Build on your strengths and find a way around your weaknesses.

What you cannot conquer, circumvent but do not compromise yourself for the sake of the urban jungle, because concrete does not sympathise.

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

The court finds everyone to be in contempt (including himself :-), and orders everyone sentenced to five years hard labor. (Working on Perl, of course.)

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.