Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

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.

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.

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.

Take the Kama Sutra. How many people died from the Kama Sutra as opposed to the Bible? Who wins?

We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there.

And you’ll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by. Someday duly, oneday truly, twosday newly, till whensday.

Where there is hunger, law is not regarded; and where law is not regarded, there will be hunger.

You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.

I joined a band to hit things.

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.