Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

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.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Life should be great rather than long.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

There's place and means for every man alive.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

Time ripens all things; no one is born wise.

The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

Diamonds are a girls best friend.

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

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

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.