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

There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.

Shoot a lower score than everybody else.

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

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.

The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.

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

I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to its knees.

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

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again.

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

I learn something new about the game almost every time I step on the course.

If you can't outplay them, outwork them.

If you can’t outplay them, outwork them.

The most important shot in golf is the next one.

The hard truth is that there are people who believe they're writers and work hard at it and are sincere about it, but they don't make it. You have to be prepared for that possibility.

I was the youngest child. I got to be myself and ask stupid questions because I was the youngest. It is so important to listen to the questions children have and reward them for the wondrous questions they ask.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Almost every week, there are stories in the press or on Chinese social media about what even the official Chinese media call 'hot online topics:' stories about how people in a particular village or town used Weibo to expose malfeasance by local or regional authorities.

What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided; a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.

In our system, at about 11:30 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office.

I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

My story reflexes come less from fantasy or horror than from the darker sort of psychological thriller - not as plot-driven as most, rather more mood-driven. My interest in the supernatural is a complication - though I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

I was a loud child, and if my mother sang to me, I would be quiet.

I grew up on the very human side of Christianity, so messages in the household I grew up in were about peace, love, and being understanding of everybody, which I think is quite cool.

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

Even after he was gone, I still loved my father. I looked Norwegian, like him, with a long face, strong jaw, thin mouth, and flashing eyes. And, like him, I was verbal, easygoing, and low-key on the surface, and, deep down, proud, socially paranoid, full of self-loathing, and prone to rage at injustice.

Rooftop solar is the first true form of competition that utilities have ever faced, and that is why they're attacking it.

Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think can't be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege.

If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.