If I needed advice from my caddie, he'd be hitting the shots and I'd be carrying the bag.

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.

The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves? Who knows what women's intelligence will contribute when it can be nourished without denying love?

Journalism is a Darwinian process.

One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

Change generally pleases the rich. [Lat., Plerumque gratae divitibus vices.]

There's nothing as beautiful and empowering in life than a memory.

I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!

Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.