Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
I looked like a monkey trying to wrestle a football.
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.
It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
I like it when science and devotion find places of intersection.
Detachment does not mean non-involvement. You can be deeply involved but not entangled.