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.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

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

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

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

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

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

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

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

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

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

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.