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.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

My life didn't please me, so I created my life.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

The future is the shape of things to come.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

To forgive is not just to be altruistic.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?