Golf teaches you honesty. It teaches you discipline. It gives you a strong appreciation of nature. And personal responsibility, something that lacks in our society at times. I mean, it's only your fault, you can't blame anyone else when you shank it. Or pick the wrong club.
Izhare pyar ka ye andaaz nirala hai
Khamosh hai lab per ikrar piyara hai
Anjan hay safar hamrahi bhi anjan hai
Tare tasveer nahi to kya tare lafzo ka sahara hai.
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
Yuhi aankhon se ansu bahte nahi,
Kisi aur ko hum apna kahte nahi,
Ek tum hi ho jo ruk se gaye ho zindagi mein,
Varna rukne ke liye hum kisi ko kahte nahi…
He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.
Those are values that help guide not just my family's Christian faith, but that of Jewish Americans, and Muslim Americans; nonbelievers and Americans of all backgrounds. And no one better embodies that spirit of service than the men and women who wear our country's uniform and their families.