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.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

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

Certain signs precede certain events.

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

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

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

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

Nature is not human-hearted.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

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

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.