This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

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

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.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

If you have zest and enthusiasm, you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

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

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.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.