Always choose style over fashion: wear something that makes you look beautiful.
When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.
Forget your opponents; always play against par.
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
Grip the club as if you were holding a baby bird.
No matter what happens - never give up a hole. . . . In tossing in your cards after a bad beginning you also undermine your whole game, because to quit between tee and green is more habit-forming than drinking a highball before breakfast.
What people really want, no matter who they are, is someone to listen to them. . . . people have a lot on their minds, however trivial, and if you're simply willing to sit there like a sack of dirt and let them yammer, they will tell it to you.
He's a man [George W. Bush] who is lucky to be governor of Texas. He is a man who is unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent, amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated, and apparently quite proud of all these things.
Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.
And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful.