Regarding trials, including of our faith and patience, there are no exemptions-only variations.
To win you must have talent and desire but desire is first.
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.
Do you still think I'm the good guy?
If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance.