We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

I couldn't see the ball come off the club for the first 27 holes. It came off the club that fast.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention.

The foundation of relationships is based on the premise of mutual purpose.

Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late; And studying all the summer night, Her matchless songs does meditate.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

There is more meat on a chicken's forehead!

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Only one thing is certain -- that is, nothing is certain. If this statement is true, it is also false.

O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!

In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on- can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.