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

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

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.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

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

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

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.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

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.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

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.