You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes.

You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes.

Second guesses in putting are fatal.

Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.

You drive for show but putt for dough.

When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.

The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

In Arizona we salt margaritas, not sidewalks.

To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may all be fine. Charles Dickens or Ingeborg Bachmann, Claude Simon or later writers. The one and only condition is that it has to be good: it has to have quality, substance, atmosphere.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.

It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.

I'm not a star, I'm an actor - there's a difference!

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.

Heaven is a very distinct place, where only God's elect will go. It's the place where the only One who deserves any glory lives and reigns.

Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal.

Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course.

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.

Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.

I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.

I have no real training in the history of fine art or furniture; my eye just works by proportions. I react intuitively. In London, it's all about color because the weather is so gray, and in that cold light they look beautiful.

When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you.

I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.

The way I look at it is, if you don't want somebody to know something, don't say it. If you don't want them to see you do something, don't do it.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Every time I stop and think about how short life can be, I wonder what I'm waiting for.

I'm not looking for guidance.

I'm pretty rough on my laptops. I go through about two a year.

Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.