To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

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

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

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 you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

What goes up must come down.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.