Let silence take you to the core of life.

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.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

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

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

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

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

You never know when a moment and afew sincere words can have an impact on a life.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough

Pain don't hurt.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.