Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

All sport ... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

History is the devil's scripture.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

It is easier to influence strong than weak characters in life.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

My art and profession is to live.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.