Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation.

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?

The paths carved by the divine carpenter into her palms are actually treasure maps showing the way to heaven.

- I saw the Center of the Universe, she said. - I'm looking at it right now, he said.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.

I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.

The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

When we know that educating a girl can change the world, why wait?

Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green.

Much of my work has been done in first person.