The past is the best prophet of the future.

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

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 purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

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.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.

Anybody can dig a hole and plant a tree. But make sure it survives. You have to nurture it, you have to water it, you have to keep at it until it becomes rooted so it can take care or itself. There are so many enemies of trees.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

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

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

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

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.