So when I was told to work, ten, twelve hours a day as an assistant pro, I didn’t complain. It was normal.

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.

We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

You know why the game of golf is popular? Very easy, it's a great game.

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

We all know, the ones who play golf, know what a wonderful game it is and what a great past-time it is.

It’s up to the captain. I certainly feel my golf is worthy of playing in the Ryder Cup. But I’m not sure I’m on the radar screen of Paul McGinley.

I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever.

Bitterness gives ill-health and waste life.Gratefulness leads to good health and happy life.

She had no idea what the future would hold for any of them, beyond possibilities as infinite as the stars. And really, that was enough.

Events in life mean nothing if you do not reflect on them in a deep way, and ideas from books are pointless if they have no application to life as you live it.

Two months after I got out of test pilot school, I saw an advert that said NASA was recruiting more astronauts. The best job you could have as a test pilot was being an astronaut, so I volunteered.

That hunger of the flesh, that longing for ease, that terror of incarceration, that insistence on tribal honour being obeyed: all of that exists, and it exists everywhere.

We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.