The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

The less you know, the more you believe.

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

We all owe death a life.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

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.

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

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

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

It takes a long time to grow young.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.