As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it

Placing the ball in the right position for the next shot is eighty percent of winning golf.

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection.

If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.

Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.

I would never say I was an icon, but so many people have said I am, so I suppose I am. I mean, I can't not be what everyone says I am. But I don't feel like an icon.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

It turns out I had this huge geeky safety net out there that I didn’t know about this whole time, made up of people who have been reading my comic for nine years but never contacted me.

The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.

Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.