A hole in one is amazing when you think of the different universes this white mass of molecules has to pass through on its way to the hole.

I developed osteoporosis of the personality. My thought processes became brittle.

One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

You must attain a neurological and biological serenity in chaos. You cannot let yourself be sabotaged by adrenaline.

This is where God hangs out.

When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.

The amateur has an infectious, contagious enthusiasm for golf and life.

You need a fantastic memory in this game to remember the great shots and a very short memory to forget the bad ones.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Prayer is the pillow of religion.

I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

I try to say one thing with my work: A book is a wonderful place to be. A book is a package, a gift package, a surprise package-and within the wrappings is a whole new world and beyond.

Art is emotion without desire.

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories.

When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.