It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.

Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

Start by doing what's necessary then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

In life your rewards come from the gifts you give to others.

Let go of the attachment, keep the lesson

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

Ideas are like everything else. They've got to be marketed.

We often shed tears that deceive ourselves after deceiving others.

To be successful, you need leisure. You need time hanging heavily on your hands.

If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.

No single virtue is, on its own, necessarily virtuous.

Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

Leaving golf aside for the moment, I'd choose Roger Federer as a sporting role model, Muhammad Ali for a sporting and non-sporting role model and Nelson Mandela as a true and lasting inspiration.