The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.

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.

Hearts aren’t as smart as heads. Ain’t that the truth?

Femininity is a lot of power. It's allure. And the moment you start competing directly with a man, it's not that fun.

My stuff is my stuff. Sometimes it's not as successful as some of the other stuff. But it's my stuff.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

All men, well interrogated, answer well.

...and his eyes were so green they could turn carbon dioxide into oxygen.

There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.

No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.