You drive for show but putt for dough.

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.

I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes.

I don't think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that's where the problem is.

Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

I know God has a plan for me. I don't know what it is.

The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.

Action scenes get me so excited, and my adrenaline starts pumping.

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily... understanding of the sense of touch.

I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days.

I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is.

I had a very difficult upbringing.

The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.

There's no way we can get to the bottom of Benghazi without David Petraeus.

I really like directors who give you a certain amount of autonomy because I think a lot about my characters and I think a lot about scenes and choices.

Oblivion has been noticed as the offspring of silence.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.'

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

Playing mother to grown-up kids does not allure me much. I will not feel comfortable. Also, my fans will not like me with grey hair.

Increasingly, the Chinese will own a lot more of the world because they will be converting their dollar reserves and U.S. government bonds into real assets.

A rapidly expanding Syrian refugee policy could create conditions for domestic tragedy.