Like life, golf can be humbling. However, little good comes from brooding about mistakes we've made. The next shot, in golf or in life, is the big one.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Fate only picks on the cowards and quitters, So give 'em both barrels - and aim for the eyes.

Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness and conversation.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life.

I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.

Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable lift in culture, brains, and personality.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

Education is meaningless without manners

had almost forgotten the wet brush of your kisses… soft as April snowflakes

She was dry, dry inside like a ten-thousand-year-old tomb, with the last of her life barely dampening the dirt underneath.

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.

If you see anyone from about sixteen to sixty-five and they’re male, shoot ’em. Kill every male you see.

With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing very, very, very hard each day when we meditate to stop our thoughts.

Why are women raped far away (say, Bosnia) called victims, while those raped nearby (say, a local campus) are playing victim politics?

When I find research really rewarding is when one piece of information gives you an idea for a story. That's when it's great.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.