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.
Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included
Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
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.
The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them
Where there is love there is life.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
What goes up must come down.
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.
