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.
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often 'Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.'
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Live to the point of tears.
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
Time is the best killer.
Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.
That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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 man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
Do not erase the designs the child makes in the soft wax of his inner life.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
