Nobody ever wins the National Open. Somebody loses it.

Golf is the closest game to the game we call life. You get bad breaks from good shots; you get good breaks from bad shots - but you have to play the ball where it lies.

The main idea in golf as in life, I suppose is to learn to accept what cannot be altered and to keep on doing one's own reasoned and resolute best whether the prospect be bleak or rosy.

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank as to praise him for playing by the rules.

The real way to enjoy playing golf is to take pleasure not in the score, but in the execution of strokes.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

You swing your best when you have the fewest things to think about.

The object of golf is to beat someone. Make sure that someone is not yourself.

Golf is the only game I know of that actually becomes harder the longer you play it.

I never learned anything from a match that I won.

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over.

[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.

Since I was a child I have always been cutting things out and gluing them together rather than drawing them.

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

Tell her this And more,— That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With surplus of toys.

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.