Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Pain don't hurt.

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.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.