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.

Where there is love there is life.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

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.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

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.