If the wind is in your face, you swing too hard just to get the ball through it; if the wind is at your back, you swing too hard just to see how far you can get the ball to go.

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

A ball will always come to rest halfway down a hill, unless there is sand or water at the bottom.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

Garden: One of a vast number of free outdoor restaurants operated by charity-minded amateurs in an effort to provide healthful, balanced meals for insects, birds and animals.

Fairway: a narrow strip of mown grass that separates two groups of golfers looking for lost balls in the rough.

The true definition of a perennial: Any plant which, had it lived, would have bloomed year after year.

Hoeing: A manual method of severing roots from stems of newly planted flowers and vegetables.

Follow through: The part of the swing that takes place after the ball has been hit, but before the club has been thrown.

Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club.

Life is a race, and what matters most isn't when a person crosses the finish line, but how strong they've grown along the way.

I'm taking a vow not to advise.

Sometimes journeys begin long before their first step is taken

It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

You can't take a dying project, sprinkle it with the magic pixie dust of "open source," and have everything magically work out.

You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom.

Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.

Our job as marketers and leaders, is to create vibrant pockets, not to hunt for mass.

A little black dress is something to rely on. To fill you with confidence and ease. To have an attitude that is pure and effortless, yet sexy and classy.

Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.