Bad putting is due more to the effect the green has upon the player than it has upon the action of the ball.

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.

It's ok for people to feel bad about the wrong things they've done.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

Time is always wanting to me, and I cannot meet with a single day when I am nut hurried along, driven to by wits'-end by urgent work, business to attent do or some service to render.

Occasionally we will be overwhelmed, but mostly we will be enchanted.

Is he all right?" Jade asked Sterns. He Swooned" I know he swooned," Jade replied.

In other words, [ H.P. Lovecraft] was areligious, asexual, neurasthenic, he just didn't want to react to the world. Like Virginia Woolf, who considered religion the ultimate obscenity.

If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.

Trust is good, but control is better.