I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

Success in golf depends less on strength of body than upon strength of mind and character.

Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger.

The secret of concentration is the secret of self-discovery. You reach inside yourself to discover your personal resources, and what it takes to match them to the challenge.

If you're stupid enough to whiff, you should be smart enough to forget it.

If you can see it, you can hit it and if you can hit it, you can hole it.

Relax. You are beautiful, and everyone wants some of that beauty.

Here in this place all souls resonate within a holy vibration.

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences

If there’s one thing I’ve learned my whole life, time and age are but an illusion.

Once you start a war, you have to win.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

For me it's a remarkable thing that there is a prize celebrating and honouring and making for a brief moment short fiction the centre of the literary universe.

Urban women don't breed in their twenties. Shortly after, I became a mother too, which is why I was probably so child friendly.