The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.

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.

Personal force, determined spirit and self confidence are your greatest self.

There are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.

...sometimes compassion is the greater part of honor.

As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."

There is no truth. There is only perception.

The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes.

The more open you are within, the more capacity you will have to know, to see, and to love.

Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The 'simple act of planting a tree' not only restores the places we live, but makes us whole and powerful again.

Becoming a public figure gave me a platform to help people.

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.