A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

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

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Nature is not human-hearted.

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

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.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

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.

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.