Never have a club in your bag that you're afraid to hit.

Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.

You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.

When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.

Give luck a chance to happen.

The only thing that relieves pressure is preparation.

Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.

A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you.

You can only play one hole at a time.

But Id say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.

It's a heck of a lot harder to stay on top than it is to get there.

Long ago she'd clamped an iron shell around her heart and nothing and no one could pry it lose, but deep inside the tender flesh still beat.

The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and the dead are dead a million times longer than the living are alive...

A terrible feeling of loneliness besieged her, so strong it was almost like physical pain...

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

I support renewable energy.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

When I hear the same formula being used over and over, I get bored. Just as huge pop artists have taken inspiration from things that are happening at the moment, I do the same with my music.

He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf he'd been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation.

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

For I'll keep my humanity, though I did not keep my promises. ... and Love shall not be wrested from my veins.