Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.

Forget your opponents; always play against par.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

There is an old saying: if a man comes home with sand in his cuffs and cockleburs in his pants, don't ask him what he shot.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

Practice puts brains in your muscles.

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

Never let up. The more you can win by, the more doubts you put in the other players' minds the next time out.

What abandoned course is that?

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

As a human being, we have unlimited power and unlimited abilities, we just have to look for it.

Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

You might be a redneck if you grow Vidalia onions, rather than considering them a gourmet item.

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic.

Friendship is probably the most common form of love.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.

His eyes were bright, and, indeed, he scarcely knew whether they held dreams or realities...and in five minutes she had filled the shell of the old dream with the flesh of life.