The harder you work the luckier you get.

It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.

The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.

Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.

To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful.

A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good.

The harder you work, the luckier you get.

Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

If you think your hands are more important in your golf swing than your legs, try walking a hole on your hands.

I got so strong I felt like a giant.....When I stood on the tee with Arnold and Jack, I was tiny compared to them. But I never believed they were bigger than me. So the mind is so fascinating.

The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.

I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.

You don't have to find out you're dying to start living.

Why is Schoenberg's Music so Hard to Understand?

To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.

Baltimore is a great place.

The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.

I like the word bewilderment because it has both be and wild in it.

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear, and then to go for higher causes, higher purposes.

Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.