Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

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

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

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

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

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 difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Life should be great rather than long.