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

There's no advantage to hurrying through life.

A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included

Life is made up of marble and mud.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

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

The 'good old times'-all times, when old, are good.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

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.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

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

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

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

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.