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.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

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.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

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

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

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

Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

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

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

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

The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.

If I get married, I want to be very married.