To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

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

Life's a journey, not a destination.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

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 past is the best prophet of the future.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

If it is worth doing, it is worth overdoing.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

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

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

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

Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind?

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.