A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.

Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.

We were all born with webbed feet and a golf club in our hand.

The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

The unlived life is not worth examining.

Faith sir! She looks like the Old Course.

Trusting the resolve in my heart is but a stepping stone to the future I now see clearly.

Ravens bring things to people. We're like that. It's our nature. We don't like it.

Fail early as much you can so that you can succeed early as much you can.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.

I write for people who are good money managers and want to know how to be even better stewards over their money.

Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.

Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later.

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.