[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.

A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

[When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.

The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty.

I've only seen pictures of New Zealand but everything I see is so pretty. Your eyes just... I don't think my eyes could take the beauty!

A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what means that result was achieved-but it is my job to know.

The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

I counted myself so plain, so poorly made, that no honest love could come to me.

In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

The degree of your anger over correction equals the measure of your pride.

On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.

I get some of my best ideas while out walking.